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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What is your advice for one who knows tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis) but does not know 'aqidah (creed), and the reverse?

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Question:
The questioner says: Peace be upon you, and Allah's mercy and blessings. To proceed: The Islamic religion is one part, but I see in our university and other universities that the Islamic religion is divided, where there is a department for tafsir, a department for fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), and a department for 'aqidah. Consequently, we find that the scholar of tafsir knows nothing of 'aqidah, and this is a great matter. Do you have any guidance to the correct path, Your Eminence? May Allah reward you with the best reward.

Answer:
This is known to scholars from ancient times; each one has a specialization. The one who has knowledge of tafsir may be deficient in other matters, such as knowing the rulings, scholarly disagreement, and applying the stronger position, among other things. And the scholar of the Arabic language and the rules of grammar may not have religious information to know. So, every branch of knowledge has its people and its specialists, and this does no harm. From ancient times, hadith had its men, fiqh had its men, language had its men, history had its men, and the rules of Arabic had its men. There is no objection to all of this. If the student has a lesson in tafsir from those who specialize in it, and those whom Allah has given understanding of the Qur'an and insight into the Qur'an, and another lesson in hadith and what relates to hadith, its chains, and its terminology, and another lesson in usul al-fiqh (the principles of jurisprudence) and the rules of fiqh, and another lesson in rulings and what differs without disagreement, and another lesson in grammar and the rules of Arabic, all of this is fine, and there is no harm in the need for this. There is no contradiction or confusion in this, whether it is in one place or in various places, whether it is in one college and one location or in various locations and colleges. Yes.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 116 ما نصيحتكم لمن يعرف في التفسير ولا يعرف في العقيدة والعكس؟ للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com

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