Seeking Knowledge Through Recorded Lessons and Books
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Question:
Do you advise seeking knowledge through the recorded lessons of the great scholars if a student of knowledge is unable to attend the lessons due to work?
Answer:
Recorded tapes and books are not relied upon for seeking knowledge. Rather, one benefits from them; you can benefit from them, listen to them, read in the book, and benefit from it. But do not rely on this and consider it as acquiring or seeking knowledge. It is necessary to receive knowledge from the scholars. If this were sufficient, the scholars and students would not have traveled on long journeys to meet the scholars, nor would they have bought books and sat down to read them, or taken tapes and listened to them. This does not suffice or replace seeking knowledge. Rather, one only benefits from it to a limited extent. Yes.
Do you advise seeking knowledge through the recorded lessons of the great scholars if a student of knowledge is unable to attend the lessons due to work?
Answer:
Recorded tapes and books are not relied upon for seeking knowledge. Rather, one benefits from them; you can benefit from them, listen to them, read in the book, and benefit from it. But do not rely on this and consider it as acquiring or seeking knowledge. It is necessary to receive knowledge from the scholars. If this were sufficient, the scholars and students would not have traveled on long journeys to meet the scholars, nor would they have bought books and sat down to read them, or taken tapes and listened to them. This does not suffice or replace seeking knowledge. Rather, one only benefits from it to a limited extent. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-102-واجب الطالب الجامعي بعد تخرجه|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (51:30)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.