Diminishing the Importance of Lectures in Mosques

Question:
In our time, the means of acquiring knowledge and learning have multiplied through social media sites and satellite channels, to the point where some people have begun to diminish the importance of holding lectures in mosques, saying that people can listen to them while they are in their homes.

Answer:
Listen to whom? Do they listen to trustworthy scholars, or do they listen to whoever comes along from the ignorant, the malicious, and those whose creed is not trustworthy? This is not trustworthy, my brother. The knowledge that is to be trusted in the mosques, the houses of Allah the Exalted, must have its source in the mosques, in the houses of Allah the Exalted, because nothing is delivered there except what conforms to the Book and the Sunnah. As for these satellite channels, they gather everything that comes along, and one should not pay attention to them or rely on them. However, if you sometimes hear a benefit or a lecture, and you have a solid grasp that allows you to distinguish right from wrong, there is no harm. But relying on them and making them the source of learning, and saying that lectures should be prevented or that there is no need for lectures in mosques or for lessons in mosques, this is a serious error. Yes.