The Ruling on Benefiting from the Book *Social Justice* and Telling Stories in Lectures
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The questioner:
As for the leaders and scholars, what remains then? Where do the people go? They have no scholars left and no rulers left; where do they go?
The Shaykh:
They feel it immediately, and this is what Satan and his helpers want from the Muslims. Yes.
The questioner:
As you saw, the Shaykh held that it is obligatory to benefit from the book *Social Justice* in the best of books, even though this book contains innovations such as socialism, and it disparages the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and it places the Umayyad and Abbasid states outside the bounds of Islam.
The Shaykh:
And I do not like delving into such books, because they are books of no value from the standpoint of knowledge; they are merely words and ideas, not scholarly books, but rather ideological books. They are more eloquent in their ideas than ours, but they are not scholarly books. So the one who has a desire for reading and seeking knowledge should read the useful scholarly books: books of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), hadith, and tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis), and other beneficial books. He should not waste his time on these ideological books that contain no knowledge, but only ideas. Yes.
As for the leaders and scholars, what remains then? Where do the people go? They have no scholars left and no rulers left; where do they go?
The Shaykh:
They feel it immediately, and this is what Satan and his helpers want from the Muslims. Yes.
The questioner:
As you saw, the Shaykh held that it is obligatory to benefit from the book *Social Justice* in the best of books, even though this book contains innovations such as socialism, and it disparages the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and it places the Umayyad and Abbasid states outside the bounds of Islam.
The Shaykh:
And I do not like delving into such books, because they are books of no value from the standpoint of knowledge; they are merely words and ideas, not scholarly books, but rather ideological books. They are more eloquent in their ideas than ours, but they are not scholarly books. So the one who has a desire for reading and seeking knowledge should read the useful scholarly books: books of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), hadith, and tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis), and other beneficial books. He should not waste his time on these ideological books that contain no knowledge, but only ideas. Yes.
Source
الفوزان - أسباب الفجوة بين كبار العلماء والصحوة (فتاوى) — archive.org (1:04:10)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.