Combining the prohibition against excessive questioning with the encouragement to ask
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: How does a person reconcile the prohibition against excessive questioning with the encouragement to ask the scholars and seek knowledge?
Answer:
The question that serves no purpose, whose intent is to be pedantic or to stump the respondent, or something similar, is the question that serves no purpose. As for the question that serves a purpose, it is prescribed.[An-Nahl 16:43] Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: How does a person reconcile the prohibition against excessive questioning with the encouragement to ask the scholars and seek knowledge?
Answer:
The question that serves no purpose, whose intent is to be pedantic or to stump the respondent, or something similar, is the question that serves no purpose. As for the question that serves a purpose, it is prescribed.
So ask the people of the message if you do not know.
فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب الرخصة في إعادة الجماعة وركعتي الطواف في كل وقت — islamhouse.com (1:13:50)
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