What is your advice for students of knowledge who do not act upon what they have learned?
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Question:
He says: What is your advice for students of knowledge among whom backbiting, bad suspicion, and not acting upon what they have learned have become widespread?
Answer:
This is from Shaytan, aimed at students of knowledge. They are the most deserving of leaving backbiting, talebearing, speaking about people, and sowing discord between students of knowledge, between students and scholars, and between students themselves. Factionalism—following so-and-so, beware of so-and-so—is not permissible among students of knowledge. The obligatory thing is mutual advice, my brother.
Mutual advice: the one who has an error returns from the error to the truth. If you have a criticism of someone, advise him and clarify it. It is not possible that you are the one in error after discussing it with him, my brother. But if you insult him, backbite him, and warn people against him, this is not the way of scholars, nor the way of those who give advice. This is the way of talebearers. Yes.
He says: What is your advice for students of knowledge among whom backbiting, bad suspicion, and not acting upon what they have learned have become widespread?
Answer:
This is from Shaytan, aimed at students of knowledge. They are the most deserving of leaving backbiting, talebearing, speaking about people, and sowing discord between students of knowledge, between students and scholars, and between students themselves. Factionalism—following so-and-so, beware of so-and-so—is not permissible among students of knowledge. The obligatory thing is mutual advice, my brother.
Mutual advice: the one who has an error returns from the error to the truth. If you have a criticism of someone, advise him and clarify it. It is not possible that you are the one in error after discussing it with him, my brother. But if you insult him, backbite him, and warn people against him, this is not the way of scholars, nor the way of those who give advice. This is the way of talebearers. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما نصيحتكم لطلبة العلم الذين لا يعملون بما تعلموه؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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