Seeking a fatwa (a scholarly legal ruling) is only from the qualified scholars
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, some people have been bold in issuing fatwas without knowledge. If a person acts upon such a fatwa and it is not valid, what is the result of that?
Answer:
Praise be to Allah. The scholars who are qualified to issue fatwas are specific, numerous, and known to the people. So whoever has a question should approach them and ask them. As for one who is not known for knowledge, or not known for religion and taqwa (mindfulness of Allah), he should not be asked, or it is known that he is ignorant and has no knowledge; it is not permissible to ask him,[An-Nahl 16:43]. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, some people have been bold in issuing fatwas without knowledge. If a person acts upon such a fatwa and it is not valid, what is the result of that?
Answer:
Praise be to Allah. The scholars who are qualified to issue fatwas are specific, numerous, and known to the people. So whoever has a question should approach them and ask them. As for one who is not known for knowledge, or not known for religion and taqwa (mindfulness of Allah), he should not be asked, or it is known that he is ignorant and has no knowledge; it is not permissible to ask him,
So ask the people of the message if you do not know.
فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 1504 - طلب الفتوى لا يكون إلا من أهل العلم المختصين - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.