How can the Muslim man and woman avoid wrong ideas and false guidance in this time?

Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. Ideas like these seep in through certain books. Is there a word from Shaykh Fawzan?

Answer:
These ideas and bad habits seep into the people either through custom and what people have become accustomed to without referring to the Book and the Sunnah, or through books that have no standard and are not known to the scholars of the Ummah, and whose authors are not trustworthy. Ha. Or through the callers to misguidance and the callers to fitnah (trial, discord or temptation).
So the unlegislated matters seep into the people through these things, either from bad custom , or through unregulated books which they think they can trust simply because they are books, without looking at their author, and without looking at what is in them to see if it agrees with the Book and the Sunnah or not? Or through the callers to misguidance and the corrupters. All of these are afflictions that strike people in their religion, and there is no power and no strength except with Allah. So it is obligatory to refer to the people of knowledge and present these books to them. By the people of knowledge, I mean the established scholars who have carried the correct knowledge. They are consulted in these matters, these books are brought to them, and their opinion is taken on them. This is what is obligatory upon the Muslim. Or if this came through custom or through some of the misleading callers, then this is also presented to the trustworthy people of knowledge, and their opinion is taken on it, because the matter is a matter of religion. So the Muslim must refer to the people of religion, .
If a person needed an item from the goods to buy, he would go ask the people of expertise and knowledge in goods and their prices. So how would he not ask about the matters of his religion? Yes.