Treating Lethargy in the Pursuit of Knowledge and Engaging in the Critique and Vindication of Narrators

Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh, I had a high aspiration in seeking knowledge, but I experienced a great decline in motivation. What do you advise me? Do you advise me? And if a student refrains from the matters of critiquing and vindicating narrators and devotes himself to seeking knowledge, is there anything required of him?

Answer:
O my brothers, critiquing and vindicating narrators is for specialists, for scholars and specialists in hadith, and for those who memorize it. Do not engage in critiquing and vindicating narrators. Devote yourselves to knowledge. You are now beginners; you have not reached the stage of critiquing and vindicating narrators. This is the rank of the great imams. Engage in seeking knowledge. Seek knowledge from the scholars, devote yourselves to it, continue seeking, and do not engage in anything that is not your specialty.