Advice for Scholarship Students

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Question:
This is a question from one of the scholarship students named Muhammad 'Abd al-Hafeez from the College of Sharia. He says: Your Excellency the Shaykh, Dr. Salih ibn Fawzan al-Fawzan (may Allah preserve him), what is your advice for the scholarship students? Their duty is to defend this land, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the landing place of the Revelation and the source of light, when they return to their countries or wherever they are located.

Answer:
Among them is a verse from the Book of Allah that they read and act upon:

And it is not for the believers to go forth [to battle] all at once

وَمَا كَانَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ لِيَنفِرُوا كَافَّةً

[At-Tawbah 9:122]

meaning for the sake of seeking knowledge. It is not possible that all Muslims come to seek knowledge, but a group comes from them. Were it not for a group from every sect among them, a group whose minimum is one and whose maximum has no limit

For there should separate from every division of them a group [remaining] to obtain understanding in the religion and warn their people when they return to them that they might be cautious.

فَلَوْلَا نَفَرَ مِن كُلِّ فِرْقَةٍ مِّنْهُمْ طَائِفَةٌ لِّيَتَفَقَّهُوا فِي الدِّينِ وَلِيُنذِرُوا قَوْمَهُمْ إِذَا رَجَعُوا إِلَيْهِمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَحْذَرُونَ

[At-Tawbah 9:122]

. This is the guiding light by which the students who come to seek knowledge in this land proceed when they return to their countries.

Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-085-مسؤولية الشباب تجاه دينهم ووطنهم|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (47:35)

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