Some take this statement of yours and apply it to the partisan groups, saying these are scholars, while the Shaykh warns against speaking about them

The questioner:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner sent a message saying: Some people take this statement of yours and apply it to the partisan groups, and say these are scholars, while the Shaykh warns against speaking about them. So what is your advice to those who apply your words to things other than their intended context? If you could name for us who you mean by “scholars” in this time, so that we may learn from them and the pretenders to knowledge may be distinguished.

The Shaykh:
Our words? What are our words? What are these words of ours? Yes.

The questioner:
He did not point to it, he did not point to it. He said, if you could name for us who you mean by “scholars” in this time, so that we may learn from them and the pretenders to knowledge may be distinguished.

The Shaykh:
I say that the student of knowledge should focus on seeking knowledge and leave speaking about people. As for criticizing authors or criticizing scholars, that is for the scholars, not for the students. The students should focus on seeking knowledge. As for criticizing those who err, clarifying the error, and responding to them, that is the concern of the scholars, not the concern of the students. That is what I say. The scholars are good at responding and good at how they deal with errors, unlike the students and the young men, for they are bad at it and do not do it well. Yes.