Advice to the Youth in Seeking Knowledge.

The questioner: What is the final advice you give to the youth...?

The Shaykh: May Allah bless you all. My advice to them is, first, to seek knowledge. Knowledge is of two types: necessary and non-necessary. In jurisprudential terms, this is an individual obligation (fard 'ayn) and a collective obligation (fard kifayah). It is obligatory for every Muslim to learn the individual obligation knowledge that leads to the rectification of his worship. Prayer is a general obligation for every adult Muslim, and so is fasting. However, zakah and Hajj are not obligatory except for those in whom the conditions are met, as Allah the Exalted said: . If a person is wealthy and not... , then it is obligatory for this... to learn how to perform Hajj, how to fast, how to pay zakah, and so on.
As for the broad knowledge, it is a collective obligation (fard kifayah); if some people fulfill it, it is lifted from the rest. So, each of these people, according to his capacity, should learn knowledge to rectify his work with it, as Allah the Exalted said: , and He said: . After every Muslim strives to seek knowledge in its two categories—there is something that is necessary for everyone, which is the individual obligation knowledge, and there is a category that is necessary for some of them and not for the others, which is the collective obligation—I remind them to seek knowledge for the sake of Allah so that they may correct their work with it, and to be sincere in that to their Lord, as He said—Mighty and Majestic: . And in the other verse: , meaning: in accordance with the knowledge, and the knowledge is the Book and the Sunnah ; meaning: let him be sincere in his worship, in his knowledge, and in his work.
And peace be upon you, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.