The Meaning of Ibn Sirin's Statement: This Knowledge Is Religion, So Look to Whom You Take Your Religion
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Question:
A questioner asks, saying: What is the meaning of the statement of Ibn Sirin (may Allah have mercy on him), "This is knowledge of religion, so look to whom you take your religion from"? And is it obligatory to know the condition of a man in order to take knowledge from him?
Answer:
Yes, this is as we mentioned to you: knowledge is not taken from papers, or from tapes, or from websites, or from the internet. Rather, knowledge is taken from scholars for transmission in this manner. And not from every scholar, but the student of knowledge chooses one in whom he trusts his religion and his knowledge to learn from him. Yes.
A questioner asks, saying: What is the meaning of the statement of Ibn Sirin (may Allah have mercy on him), "This is knowledge of religion, so look to whom you take your religion from"? And is it obligatory to know the condition of a man in order to take knowledge from him?
Answer:
Yes, this is as we mentioned to you: knowledge is not taken from papers, or from tapes, or from websites, or from the internet. Rather, knowledge is taken from scholars for transmission in this manner. And not from every scholar, but the student of knowledge chooses one in whom he trusts his religion and his knowledge to learn from him. Yes.
Source
الاستقامة على دين الله — alfawzan.live (51:21)
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