Advice for one who is warned against students of knowledge on the claim that they are servants of the sultans

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, the questioner says: I am seeking advice and I want counsel. I am heading toward commitment to the religion, and I live in Kuwait. We have some committed individuals who studied in al-Qassim at Imam University, and with Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy on him), and some of them studied in Madinah. They are active in lessons and holding jurisprudential and creedal lectures. However, some people warned me about them and told me that these are servants of the sultans. So what do you advise me?

Answer:
We advise you to continue with the students of knowledge. These individuals studied at the College of Sharia or the Principles of Religion at Imam University in al-Qassim and studied under the shaykhs. So it is hoped that they are better than others. Therefore, you must keep their company and learn from them, and do not pay attention to those who try to discourage people from them or turn them away. These people want to turn people away from the people of knowledge and from benefiting from them. So do not pay attention to them. Continue in seeking knowledge from its people, and do not pay attention to the discouragers, the spreaders of rumors, the enemies, and the partisans who turn people away from the scholars and from... Yes.