If lessons and lectures are delivered in apartments and rest houses, do you advise attending them?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This person is seeking advice and says: There are those who deliver lessons and lectures in apartments and rest houses. Do you advise attending such gatherings?

Answer:
By Allah, I do not know of it; I am not aware of it. Although lessons are delivered in mosques, those in apartments and rest houses are suspicious. Perhaps suspicious matters are delivered there. So, do not deliver them in rest houses or apartments; deliver them in mosques if you want to benefit people. Otherwise, there is suspicion in it. 'Umar ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz said: If you see a group whispering about something in the affairs of religion, know that they have opened the door to misguidance. Yes.