How does a servant know that he is on the straight path
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Question:
Also, among the questions this questioner asks is: “O Honorable Shaykh, how does a servant know that he is walking on the straight path and that he has not strayed from the truth?”
Answer:
He acts in accordance with the Book and the Sunnah. He asks the scholars about whatever is difficult for him, and he acts according to their fatwas and their answers. He follows the correct path; if he knows that on his own, praise be to Allah, otherwise he asks the scholars. Allah the Exalted said:[An-Nahl 16:43] Yes.
Also, among the questions this questioner asks is: “O Honorable Shaykh, how does a servant know that he is walking on the straight path and that he has not strayed from the truth?”
Answer:
He acts in accordance with the Book and the Sunnah. He asks the scholars about whatever is difficult for him, and he acts according to their fatwas and their answers. He follows the correct path; if he knows that on his own, praise be to Allah, otherwise he asks the scholars. Allah the Exalted said:
So ask the people of the message if you do not know.
فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، برنامج (فتاوى) (129) لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان بتاريخ [1437-08-25] - كبار العلماء — youtube.com (48:31)
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