Taking the Ruling of a Scholar and Asking the People of Knowledge
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Question:
If a shaykh or a student of knowledge comes with a fatwa (scholarly legal ruling), and he returns and the scholar has preserved it, I take the shaykh's fatwa and I implement the scholar's fatwa.
Answer:
(Exalted and Majestic is He) says:[An-Nahl 16:43] The scholars are the people of knowledge. One does not ask the common people, nor the beginners, nor those who are ignorant; rather, one asks the people of knowledge, the people of knowledge.
If a shaykh or a student of knowledge comes with a fatwa (scholarly legal ruling), and he returns and the scholar has preserved it, I take the shaykh's fatwa and I implement the scholar's fatwa.
Answer:
(Exalted and Majestic is He) says:
So ask the people of the message
فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 12 من 15 / شرح أصول الإيمان / تحريم المجادلة في القرآن/ صالح الفوزان / العقيدة/ كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:00:04)
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