Beware of “Self-Thought” Intellectuals Claiming
Knowledge
Shaykh Sāliḥ al-Fawzān (حفظه
الله)
stated:
"It is possible for any person to
buy an amount of books and read them, but that doesn’t benefit anything, it
harms more than it benefits. Let’s give an example: If you felt an illness, do
you go to the pharmacy and pick up any random medicine from it? Or must you go
to the doctor first so he can diagnose the type of illness and prescribe the
appropriate medicine? All of that is done (visiting the doctor etc. first)
fearing that you may take a harmful medicine that is not appropriate, which may
kill you or harm you. Similarly, knowledge, you must go to the specialists in
it, and take it from them, and do not suffice with just books, for fear of falling into misguidance, and being
affected by what is in some of them from doubts…”
الخطب المنبرية للشيخ الفوزان ٢١٤/١
Translated by: Abu Muadh Taqweem Aslam
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