Is it permissible for a beginner student to read the books of Shaykh Sulayman ibn Sa'dan alone without studying under a specific Shaykh?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Is it permissible for a beginner student to read the books of Shaykh Sulayman ibn Sa'dan (may Allah have mercy on him) alone, without studying under a specific Shaykh?

Answer:
Read the prescribed curriculum. You must have a foundation of knowledge. It is not that you read while you have not previously sought knowledge. If you have a foundation of knowledge, read from the books of scholars what increases your knowledge and confirms your knowledge, from the books of Shaykh Ibn Sa'dan and others. But if a person has no foundation and no principles, and he wants to apply the refutations, reading them while he has no principles or foundations, this is of no benefit; rather, it may mislead him more. He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. And this is what calls us to repeat: learn, learn before you learn, either in the colleges and institutes under the teachers, or learn under the scholars in the mosques. Do not limit yourself to reading and perusal without prior foundational study. Yes.