Advice for visiting students of knowledge after their return to their homelands
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Question:
Our Shaykh, Shaykh Salih, and all praise is due to Allah, this blessed university, by the grace of Allah the Mighty and Majestic, has attracted many scholarship students from all corners of the earth, and a large number of them are present with us now, and all praise is due to Allah. Is there any guiding word you would direct to them while they are currently in the stage of seeking knowledge? And what do you advise them to do after they return, if Allah wills, to their homelands, having gained what they have gained?
Answer:
I advise them to reflect on the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-Fatihah 1:1] [At-Tawbah 9:122].
So, praise be to Allah, they set out to seek knowledge and came to this land to seek knowledge, and I ask Allah the Mighty and Majestic to fulfill their desire. However, when they return to their homelands, and their homelands are thirsty for them, they must spread their knowledge and give special attention to 'aqidah (creed), because the correct 'aqidah may be obscure in many lands. They should care for it, explain it to the people, and clarify it to them with wisdom, good exhortation, and the best kind of argument. Their homelands are in need of them, so they should remember this verse:[At-Tawbah 9:122]. And Allah will, if He wills, bring about much good through their hands. Yes.
Our Shaykh, Shaykh Salih, and all praise is due to Allah, this blessed university, by the grace of Allah the Mighty and Majestic, has attracted many scholarship students from all corners of the earth, and a large number of them are present with us now, and all praise is due to Allah. Is there any guiding word you would direct to them while they are currently in the stage of seeking knowledge? And what do you advise them to do after they return, if Allah wills, to their homelands, having gained what they have gained?
Answer:
I advise them to reflect on the saying of Allah the Exalted:
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِAnd it is not for the believers to go forth [to battle] all at once. For there should separate from every division of them a group [remaining] to obtain understanding in the religion and warn their people when they return to them that they might be cautious.
وَمَا كَانَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ لِيَنفِرُوا كَافَّةً فَلَوْلَا نَفَرَ مِن كُلِّ فِرْقَةٍ مِّنْهُمْ طَائِفَةٌ لِّيَتَفَقَّهُوا فِي الدِّينِ وَلِيُنذِرُوا قَوْمَهُمْ إِذَا رَجَعُوا إِلَيْهِمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَحْذَرُونَSo, praise be to Allah, they set out to seek knowledge and came to this land to seek knowledge, and I ask Allah the Mighty and Majestic to fulfill their desire. However, when they return to their homelands, and their homelands are thirsty for them, they must spread their knowledge and give special attention to 'aqidah (creed), because the correct 'aqidah may be obscure in many lands. They should care for it, explain it to the people, and clarify it to them with wisdom, good exhortation, and the best kind of argument. Their homelands are in need of them, so they should remember this verse:
and warn their people when they return to them that they might be cautious.
وَلِيُنذِرُوا قَوْمَهُمْ إِذَا رَجَعُوا إِلَيْهِمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَحْذَرُونَ
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