The Ruling on Taking Knowledge from the Internet and Receiving It from Scholars
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, is it permissible for a student of knowledge studying at this university to take knowledge from the internet? He says, “We advised him, but he says that some scholars have permitted it.”
Answer:
Knowledge is not taken from the internet, nor from tapes, nor from books; rather, knowledge is taken from scholars. Knowledge by transmission requires transmission from scholars. If knowledge could be taken from books or what serves as their equivalent, scholars would not have traveled in the past to lands and to scholars to learn and receive knowledge from them. And Allah, Exalted and Majestic is He, said:[At-Tawbah 9:122] [At-Tawbah 9:122].
Therefore, one must travel to the people of knowledge, to the Islamic universities and Islamic colleges, to learn Islamic knowledge wherever it is found. A person should not be content with reading and listening to tapes or the like. One only benefits from these in terms of mere benefit, but if one relies on them and considers oneself a scholar, that is a great error. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, is it permissible for a student of knowledge studying at this university to take knowledge from the internet? He says, “We advised him, but he says that some scholars have permitted it.”
Answer:
Knowledge is not taken from the internet, nor from tapes, nor from books; rather, knowledge is taken from scholars. Knowledge by transmission requires transmission from scholars. If knowledge could be taken from books or what serves as their equivalent, scholars would not have traveled in the past to lands and to scholars to learn and receive knowledge from them. And Allah, Exalted and Majestic is He, said:
And it is not for the believers to go forth [to battle] all at once
وَمَا كَانَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ لِيَنفِرُوا كَافَّةًFor 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.
فَلَوْلَا نَفَرَ مِن كُلِّ فِرْقَةٍ مِّنْهُمْ طَائِفَةٌ لِّيَتَفَقَّهُوا فِي الدِّينِ وَلِيُنذِرُوا قَوْمَهُمْ إِذَا رَجَعُوا إِلَيْهِمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَحْذَرُونَTherefore, one must travel to the people of knowledge, to the Islamic universities and Islamic colleges, to learn Islamic knowledge wherever it is found. A person should not be content with reading and listening to tapes or the like. One only benefits from these in terms of mere benefit, but if one relies on them and considers oneself a scholar, that is a great error. Yes.
Source
الاستقامة على دين الله — alfawzan.live (44:28)
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