Repeating Questions to Scholars: Between Diligence and Obsession

Question:
The Shaykh, may Allah protect them, regarding the issue of accepting the ruling on the matter of hair: if one asks the scholars in whom we have trust in their religion and knowledge, do we accept their answer, or do we keep asking out of diligence? And how do we know, and how is it possible for us to know, that repeating questions to scholars is diligence and not obsession?

Answer:
If you are ignorant, and you ask someone you trust in his knowledge and religion, you are content with that; you act on his ruling. As long as you trust his knowledge and religion, why do you go on asking others and others? But if you are a student of knowledge, and you ask this one and that one in order to know the stronger position from the weaker, there is no harm in that. There is no harm if you are a student of knowledge and you have knowledge of the ruling, but you want more knowledge, to know the stronger position from the weaker, and what is the evidence for such and such an opinion; there is no harm in this, because this falls under the category of learning and removing doubt.