The Ruling on Isolating Oneself from Scholars and Associating with Suspicious Youth

Question:
This questioner asks: Is it disliked, Honorable Shaykh, for a person to isolate himself from his family and relatives and from the scholars, and then associate with suspicious youth, and perhaps suffer the consequences of their actions?

Answer:
This is what we warned about in that statement. We said that there are people who act as brokers for disbelieving states, spreading misguidance among Muslims and diverting their youth from the truth.
They make them hate their own lands and hate Muslims. The one who leaves the scholars, the scholars' lessons, and asking the scholars, and goes to these people, is of the type who wants to transform, who wants to transform from the elevation and honor of Islam to the abode of disbelief, transforming from being with the believers to being with the disbelievers. And Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says: .
And it is obligatory for you to be with the Muslims, with their scholars, and with the common people. Sit with them, listen to them, benefit from them, and be protected from deviant ideas. It is obligatory for the Muslim youth not to be deceived by these people and go with them under the pretext of calling to Allah, as they call it, under such and such a pretext. The Muslim should not be deceived by these labels. Our religion, praise be to Allah, contains all good. So we must turn to our religion with study, understanding, application, and action.
And that we turn away from what contradicts this religion and from those who contradict this religion entirely, for Allah has honored us with Islam, so whatever we seek honor in other than that, Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) will humiliate us. Our enemies will never wish us good; they do not want good for us, ever. . They satisfy their mouths [with words of peace], but their hearts are hard, and most of them are disbelievers. We ask Allah for well-being. So we must be wary of people like these, and we must not be deceived by one who displays good and advice until we look into his deeds and words, and look into his knowledge: where did he study and where did he come from?
We do not take matters from unknown sources, but rather we must verify. We have, praise be to Allah, scholars, we have students of knowledge, we have people of experience, knowledge, and insight. So we must receive these matters from them, not receive them from a stranger or a changed man who pretends to be in the truth while he is in its opposite.