Advice for Students of Knowledge on Guarding the Tongue
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Question:
I ask Allah for you, Your Eminence the Shaykh. This questioner says: We need general advice for students of knowledge on guarding the tongue and staying away from gossip.
Answer:
Yes, this is the obligatory duty for students of knowledge and others, but especially for students of knowledge. Because they know the prohibition of that, and the scholar is punished before the ignorant person. The poet said: "A scholar who does not act upon his knowledge, for it will be said to him on the Day of Resurrection, when they say, 'Start with us before the worshippers of idols,' it will be said to them: 'Not everyone who knows is like the one who does not know.'"
I ask Allah for you, Your Eminence the Shaykh. This questioner says: We need general advice for students of knowledge on guarding the tongue and staying away from gossip.
Answer:
Yes, this is the obligatory duty for students of knowledge and others, but especially for students of knowledge. Because they know the prohibition of that, and the scholar is punished before the ignorant person. The poet said: "A scholar who does not act upon his knowledge, for it will be said to him on the Day of Resurrection, when they say, 'Start with us before the worshippers of idols,' it will be said to them: 'Not everyone who knows is like the one who does not know.'"
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-065-شروط قبول العمل الصالح|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (37:08)
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