What is better: dedicating oneself to seeking knowledge or dedicating oneself to calling people to Allah?

The questioner : In what is stronger: dedicating oneself to following Allah the Exalted and dedicating oneself to seeking the Prophet.

The Shaykh : Dedicating oneself to seeking knowledge is better.

The questioner : And more appropriate.

The Shaykh : And a student of knowledge can call people to Allah while he is seeking knowledge, and it is not possible for a call to Allah to be established without knowledge. Allah the Exalted said: , with knowledge. How can there be a call to knowledge?
Suppose you stood up and called people, and a doubt was raised against you. Then you will not be correct. Either you say, "I do not know," and your status decreases in the eyes of the people; this is an ignorant person who only speaks with his tongue. Or you answer with an error, and that is more harmful. Or you answer and hit the mark without intending to, and that is dangerous; you may hit the mark and you may not. For this reason, it is necessary to seek knowledge first, and then the call comes second.
No one has ever called people without knowledge. The general rule is that one who calls without knowledge is not successful. A call that the common person and everyone knows has no benefit. However, a student of knowledge does not mean that he stays in his books and does not speak to people. No, he learns and calls to Allah with what he has learned. One of the brothers said that some people may understand from preferring the seeking of knowledge over the call to Allah that a person seeks knowledge and does not call to Allah. That is not the case. Rather, he seeks knowledge and calls to Allah the Exalted with what he knows. Seeking knowledge takes precedence over the call, as we have indicated, but it is possible for a student of knowledge to combine them, as we also mentioned in the answer to that.