The Relationship Between Preachers and Students of Knowledge

Question:
The questioner asks: How should the relationship be between the callers to Allah and the students of knowledge, given their differences in some means of da'wah (calling to Islam) and in some matters of ijtihad (independent legal reasoning)?

Answer:
It is obligatory for them to cooperate in righteousness and piety, and for each of them to benefit from the others so that the task is one. Scholars and callers to Allah are one thing: the callers benefit from the scholars, and the scholars benefit from the callers; each one benefits from the other. This one benefits from the da'wah and its style, and the caller benefits from the scholar in what he may not know. The callers' origin is from the scholars. Even if people differ in level, it is upon the scholars who care for teaching and the circles of knowledge, and upon the callers who travel for the da'wah and care for it, that they cooperate with one another and with the scholars. Each one completes the other and supplements the other, and they should make supplication and give advice to one another. The caller benefits from the scholar in what he may not know of the rulings, and the scholar benefits from the caller in what he may not know of the style of da'wah. The point is that it is obligatory for them to cooperate in righteousness and piety, and in clarifying the truth and calling to it. Yes.