The ruling on delivering the Friday sermon by one who is not a scholar
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Question:
The upright young students remind people of the voluntary prayer and hunger, but they have no knowledge. Some of the upright young people. The people on Friday day, and they have nothing, and likewise something.
Answer:
We say, may Allah reward them with good. If there is no preacher here, if the people of the town or village do not have a preacher, then the one who stands up and preaches has done good, even if he is not a scholar. Even if he takes a sermon from the prepared sermons and reads it, that is good. He should not improvise, and he has no information to improvise with. Rather, he takes a written, edited sermon from the scholars and delivers it to the people. He has done well by the people. Yes.
The upright young students remind people of the voluntary prayer and hunger, but they have no knowledge. Some of the upright young people. The people on Friday day, and they have nothing, and likewise something.
Answer:
We say, may Allah reward them with good. If there is no preacher here, if the people of the town or village do not have a preacher, then the one who stands up and preaches has done good, even if he is not a scholar. Even if he takes a sermon from the prepared sermons and reads it, that is good. He should not improvise, and he has no information to improvise with. Rather, he takes a written, edited sermon from the scholars and delivers it to the people. He has done well by the people. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 08 من 15 / شرح أصول الإيمان / من ترك الحكم بكتاب الله / صالح الفوزان / العقيدة/ كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:02:13)
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