The Ruling on a Student of Knowledge Annotating the Margins of a Tafsir
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The questioner:
May Allah be with you, Your Eminence, the father. The questioner, a student of knowledge, asks: Is it permissible for him to write annotations in the margins of a tafsir, even though he does not write anything on the verses?
The Shaykh:
Even though he
The questioner:
does not write anything on the verses.
The Shaykh:
No, he does not write unless he is a scholar. If he is a scholar and wants to add knowledge that is not in the tafsir, not in the book, and he is a scholar, then there is no harm in writing marginal notes. As for the student, he does not write anything. With this writing, he disrupts the tafsir, disrupts the book, and dirties the pages. Is this appropriate? If he wants to write things down, he should record them. He should have a notebook and papers to record what he understood in. Then, whether his understanding is correct or not, it remains in these papers, not in the tafsir.
May Allah be with you, Your Eminence, the father. The questioner, a student of knowledge, asks: Is it permissible for him to write annotations in the margins of a tafsir, even though he does not write anything on the verses?
The Shaykh:
Even though he
The questioner:
does not write anything on the verses.
The Shaykh:
No, he does not write unless he is a scholar. If he is a scholar and wants to add knowledge that is not in the tafsir, not in the book, and he is a scholar, then there is no harm in writing marginal notes. As for the student, he does not write anything. With this writing, he disrupts the tafsir, disrupts the book, and dirties the pages. Is this appropriate? If he wants to write things down, he should record them. He should have a notebook and papers to record what he understood in. Then, whether his understanding is correct or not, it remains in these papers, not in the tafsir.
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التفسير المفصّل، تفسير من سورة الحجرات إلى سورة الناس [06-2] — alfawzan.live (5:50)
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