What is the ruling on sitting with the people of innovation to debate them?

Question:
May Allah grant you well-being, Honorable Shaykh. Many questions have come in regarding the ruling on sitting with the people of innovation to remove their ignorance and discuss with them. Is this permissible for everyone?

Answer:
Sitting with them for the purpose of teaching them and clarifying the truth for them is a call to Allah. You are not sitting with them to take from them, but rather you are sitting with them so that they may take from you. If that is the case, there is no harm. If your sitting with them is so that they may take from you, there is no harm. However, if your sitting with them is to take from them, that is not permissible. It is a condition for the one who sits with them, the one who sits with them so that they may take from him, that he be from the people of knowledge. He must be from the people of knowledge. It is not sufficient for him to be righteous and a worshipper; that is not sufficient. He must be from the people of knowledge who know how to clarify things for them and make the truth clear to them. Yes.