The Shaykh’s explanation that people are of two categories in terms of knowledge and ignorance, and what relates to that in terms of receiving the Book and the Sunnah.

The Shaykh : To summarize: I said to him, the text of the Noble Qur'an has made people two categories in terms of knowledge and ignorance. It made them scholars, who are those who understand the Book and the Sunnah, and their opposite are the non-scholars, whom we call the ignorant, who do not understand the Book and the Sunnah. Two categories; so each of the two categories has its obligatory duty by the text of the Noble Qur'an. He said—(Glorified and Exalted is He): ; so He is addressing the community in its entirety, in its scholars and its ignorant, in its literate and its illiterate. He says: You are two groups; scholars and non-scholars. The non-scholars must ask the scholars . This is what we call people to do, but we may differ with the followers of taqlid (following a scholar without knowing his evidence) regarding the concept of knowledge and the scholar. What is knowledge? And who is the scholar? ...