With What a Beginner Student Should Start Studying Fiqh

Question:
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, regarding a beginner student in understanding the religion, what are the fiqh books with which he should start? May Allah reward you.

Answer:
This requires a teacher, a proficient teacher of fiqh, who teaches him fiqh and explains it to him. As for merely reading books, we do not direct one to adopt the method that many young people today follow. They study from books and notebooks, and they come out to the people with their errors and misunderstandings, claiming that they are scholars. One must receive knowledge from scholars, either in institutes, universities, and schools where the sciences of the Shari'ah are taught, or from the shaykhs in the mosques. As for merely isolating oneself and reading books, or reading from an ignorant person who pretends to be a scholar, that is an error and a harm to him and to the Muslims whom he issues fatwas for. Yes.