The Ruling on Seeking Verses That Align with Modern Theories

Question:
Shaykh Salih (may Allah preserve him), what is your opinion of those who, whenever they hear a modern theory, search for a verse from the Qur'an to align with it? This is their independent reasoning that it elevates the status of the Qur'an in the eyes of people?

Answer:
We have referred to this and said that these people are not scholars and they have no right, they have no right to interpret the Qur'an, they have no right to interpret the Qur'an because interpreting the Qur'an requires qualifications in knowledge and understanding the rules of exegesis and the principles of exegesis, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever speaks about the Qur'an with his own opinion and without knowledge .
It is not permissible for a person to interpret the Qur'an with modern theories if he is not among the people of knowledge; rather, he is an engineer, or a doctor, or a chemist, or something similar. Every field of knowledge has its own people and its own men.
Just as I do not enter into matters of medicine because I do not know medicine, and if I did enter into it, people would say, "This is not sound; he is intervening in medicine while he does not know how to dissect people's bellies, and he does not know their conditions," and they have the right to say this because I do not know this matter. So how can a person from among the doctors, who does not know the Shari'ah and does not know the Islamic sciences, enter into matters of the Shari'ah and interpret the great Qur'an? This is a great error and blatant ignorance. This is absolutely not permissible; it is not permissible to interpret the Qur'an except for one who possesses the highest scientific qualification. Yes.