Sitting with the senior scholars despite their strictness
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The questioner:
The questioner says: May Allah reward you. The methodology of the righteous Salaf is to turn to the senior scholars. We now find some strictness in some of the seniors, so we fear asking them and sitting with them. What is our obligation in this?
The Shaykh:
You must sit with the people of knowledge and the senior people of knowledge to take knowledge from them. This is necessary.
The questioner:
Good.
The Shaykh:
Do not be repelled from them by this talk that they are strict, that this is from Satan, and that these are the whispers of the devils. Leave them. Yes. If you seek the truth, Allah will grant you success in it and benefit you with what you take from the scholars. But if you have bad thoughts about them and describe them as strict, you deprive yourself of their knowledge. Yes.
The questioner says: May Allah reward you. The methodology of the righteous Salaf is to turn to the senior scholars. We now find some strictness in some of the seniors, so we fear asking them and sitting with them. What is our obligation in this?
The Shaykh:
You must sit with the people of knowledge and the senior people of knowledge to take knowledge from them. This is necessary.
The questioner:
Good.
The Shaykh:
Do not be repelled from them by this talk that they are strict, that this is from Satan, and that these are the whispers of the devils. Leave them. Yes. If you seek the truth, Allah will grant you success in it and benefit you with what you take from the scholars. But if you have bad thoughts about them and describe them as strict, you deprive yourself of their knowledge. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-050-حاجة الأمة للمنهج السلفي|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (57:08)
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