The Permissibility of Expanding the Number of Circles for Seeking Knowledge
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The questioner:
I would like to ask about expanding the number of circles for seeking knowledge in the mosques, Your Eminence the Shaykh, in the villages, in the small towns, and in the large cities as well?
The Shaykh:
It is recommended that if scholars are available, they should expand in this regard, even if it is in every mosque; because the congregation of every mosque is in need of learning and benefit. So if there are scholars in the town, it is prescribed for them to teach the people through the circles, through the lessons after 'Asr, or after Maghrib, or after 'Isha', so that they may benefit. And each person should do so according to his capacity: the one who can hold a circle holds a circle, and the one who cannot, even if it is just a lesson after the 'Asr prayer or otherwise, even if it is a brief lesson, then with consistency, Allah will benefit through it, even if it is a little.
The presenter:
Yes, yes.
The Shaykh:
And the one who cannot should mediate in the right to be able to, and he should point out to him and advise him to undertake this lesson or this circle, if he is qualified for it, having from the knowledge of the Book and the Sunnah what qualifies him for it. And if there are two scholars in the town, then each one is in a part of the town, and if they are three, so, or four or more, each person is in one of the neighborhoods in a spacious mosque, so that he may teach the people and so that he may make the people understand. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good.
I would like to ask about expanding the number of circles for seeking knowledge in the mosques, Your Eminence the Shaykh, in the villages, in the small towns, and in the large cities as well?
The Shaykh:
It is recommended that if scholars are available, they should expand in this regard, even if it is in every mosque; because the congregation of every mosque is in need of learning and benefit. So if there are scholars in the town, it is prescribed for them to teach the people through the circles, through the lessons after 'Asr, or after Maghrib, or after 'Isha', so that they may benefit. And each person should do so according to his capacity: the one who can hold a circle holds a circle, and the one who cannot, even if it is just a lesson after the 'Asr prayer or otherwise, even if it is a brief lesson, then with consistency, Allah will benefit through it, even if it is a little.
The presenter:
Yes, yes.
The Shaykh:
And the one who cannot should mediate in the right to be able to, and he should point out to him and advise him to undertake this lesson or this circle, if he is qualified for it, having from the knowledge of the Book and the Sunnah what qualifies him for it. And if there are two scholars in the town, then each one is in a part of the town, and if they are three, so, or four or more, each person is in one of the neighborhoods in a spacious mosque, so that he may teach the people and so that he may make the people understand. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 7634 - مشروعية التوسع في عدد حلقات طلب العلم - نور على الدرب — youtube.com
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