The Status of Contemporary Intellectual Books and the Books of the Salaf

Question:
He wants a word on the fiqh books that have spread among the youth and advises reading them, and he sees the youth regarding the books of Islamic sciences and the books of the righteous Salaf. Yes, yes.

Answer:
I referred to this in the previous speech: contemporary books and new ideological works. Most of them, or the majority of them, are rubbish like the foam of a flood. They contain much talk, eloquence, and rhetoric, but they have nothing of knowledge, or only a small amount that is not sufficient. You read the book from beginning to end and do not come out of it with any scientific benefit. It is obligatory for students of knowledge and for the youth of Muslims to return to the authentic books, the beneficial books, the books of the Salaf, and the books of knowledge, in order to benefit from them. In them is the correct methodology, in them is the community to which one must belong, and in them is all the good they desire. The fact that they spend their time on these books that have no benefit—if they do not contain misguidance and harm, then at least they have no benefit—means that their time is spent in vain. This is because they were written by people who have nothing of knowledge. If we assume the best of them, we say they are ignorant. But if we do not assume the best of them, we say these are misguiders who want to divert Muslims from their creed and their correct religion.