The Impact of Reading on Building a Person's Thought and Belief
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Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. O Salih, reading has a great impact on the reader's life, his thought, and also his conduct. Is there a word? May Allah preserve you. Yes, reading has a great impact on the reader's thought, his conduct, and his actions, in addition to his belief. Is there a word on this? There is no doubt.
Answer:
That is because the reader is influenced by what he reads, especially if he is ignorant. So the Muslim must choose what he reads. Rather than just reading, he should choose beneficial books that benefit him in his religion and his morals. The student of knowledge, and whoever wants to read, should choose useful and beneficial books: the Book of Allah, the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and the words of the scholars. If he does not know the reality of the books, he should ask the experts and the scholars to direct him to the beneficial and useful books. He should also seek knowledge from its people, sit with the scholars, attend the lessons, and benefit from the scholars. He benefits from two sides: from the beneficial books and reading, and from the scholars, attending their gatherings, and questioning them. He must beware, with all caution, of reading deviant books that are full of misguided ideas and false beliefs, and he must not be lax in this. It is only permissible for specialists to read deviant books who want to know the falsehoods in them in order to refute them and invalidate them. It is not permissible for everyone to read in lost books and deviant books, because this is a cause of misguidance, a cause of deviation, and being impressed by what is in them. These books are undoubtedly very dangerous. For this reason, the scholars have stated that books of deviation and misguided thought must be destroyed so that they do not affect the Muslim society. They must be destroyed and kept away from the Muslim society, and their sale and packaging are not allowed, because they corrupt people's beliefs, religions, morals, and ideas. How many individuals and groups have gone astray because of these books, and how much of their evil do you see in people: false beliefs, intellectual deviations, and other evils. Yes.
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. O Salih, reading has a great impact on the reader's life, his thought, and also his conduct. Is there a word? May Allah preserve you. Yes, reading has a great impact on the reader's thought, his conduct, and his actions, in addition to his belief. Is there a word on this? There is no doubt.
Answer:
That is because the reader is influenced by what he reads, especially if he is ignorant. So the Muslim must choose what he reads. Rather than just reading, he should choose beneficial books that benefit him in his religion and his morals. The student of knowledge, and whoever wants to read, should choose useful and beneficial books: the Book of Allah, the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and the words of the scholars. If he does not know the reality of the books, he should ask the experts and the scholars to direct him to the beneficial and useful books. He should also seek knowledge from its people, sit with the scholars, attend the lessons, and benefit from the scholars. He benefits from two sides: from the beneficial books and reading, and from the scholars, attending their gatherings, and questioning them. He must beware, with all caution, of reading deviant books that are full of misguided ideas and false beliefs, and he must not be lax in this. It is only permissible for specialists to read deviant books who want to know the falsehoods in them in order to refute them and invalidate them. It is not permissible for everyone to read in lost books and deviant books, because this is a cause of misguidance, a cause of deviation, and being impressed by what is in them. These books are undoubtedly very dangerous. For this reason, the scholars have stated that books of deviation and misguided thought must be destroyed so that they do not affect the Muslim society. They must be destroyed and kept away from the Muslim society, and their sale and packaging are not allowed, because they corrupt people's beliefs, religions, morals, and ideas. How many individuals and groups have gone astray because of these books, and how much of their evil do you see in people: false beliefs, intellectual deviations, and other evils. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 4039- تأثير القراءة في بناء فكر ومعتقد الإنسان - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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