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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Advice for Students of Knowledge on Reading Books of Creed and Exegesis

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The questioner:
And he said that Allah and your seeds, our father, and the delay.

The Shaykh:
The practice of giving advice to these students of knowledge is that you should study the correct creed. You should study the correct creed so that when you encounter it, you benefit from the knowledge contained in it and are warned of the errors contained in it.
It is obligatory for you to study the correct creed. And it is obligatory for you to understand it first. As for the person who does not understand the correct creed and has not studied it, he should avoid these books and not read in them. He should read in reliable books, such as the Tafsir of Ibn Jarir or the Tafsir of Ibn Kathir, the Tafsir of Ibn [unclear], the linguistic Tafsir, and those authored by the people of the Sunnah and the community, because they are sound and contain nothing of misguidance or regarding the attributes. As for the person whom Allah has granted knowledge of the creed and he understands it completely, there is no harm in his reading in other books of Tafsir to benefit from the knowledge contained in them, such as the Tafsir of al-Razi, the Tafsir of al-Zamakhshari, and the Tafsir of al-Nasafi.
And [the Tafsir] of al-Baydawi, al-Jalalayn, and [others] from which he takes what is of knowledge and discards what is of error. Even the noble Shaykh al-Shawkani (may Allah have mercy on him) spoke a lot about the figurative interpretation (ta'wil) and did not comment on it, and even the noble [scholar] was occupied with the words of the figurative interpreters and did not comment on that, because he merely transmits what is in al-Fath. It is like the Tafsirs that are not fitting for the beginner to read in until he has done with the creed and understood it well. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 03 من 36 /شرح العقيدة الواسطية (شرح قديم)/الإيمان بما وصف الله به نفسه/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة — youtube.com (1:07:10)

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