Explaining the importance of a person knowing his own worth, and guarding against being led by self-admiration to speak on matters greater than himself, thereby misleading people.

The Shaykh: And I mean, I see that the advice our brother is giving, in reality, we must respond to it, because we are living in an age in which one of the destructive characteristics has become true, among which is . Today, hardly does any one of us learn some issues or understand something of the Qur'an and a little of the hadiths of the Messenger (peace be upon him) without imagining that he has attained some knowledge. I do not say he has become an imam in knowledge, for he cannot, for example, read a hadith without making errors in Arabic reading, let alone understand it with sound Arabic comprehension. Yet he takes up the banner of discussion and argumentation on an issue, forgetting that he has not prepared himself for it. The Muslim scholar today, I am reminding, not discussing.
The student: This is a comment.

The Shaykh: ... as a bequest from the brother.
The student: I mean, this is a comment on what happened ... .
Another student : ... my brother ... we all ... this error exists in us.

The Shaykh: The discussion now between you and me is over as a discussion, ending with advice directed from me to you: study the hadith of Hudhayfah with its narration, and do not say, "I have studied it and understood it" based on the discussion ... rather, I am reminding now, and offering advice to the pious young Muslim who is zealous for his religion, that Islam divided people into two categories regarding knowledge and ignorance. He (Glorified and Exalted is He) said in the well-known verse: . So each one of us must know the position in which Allah has placed him: is he a scholar? Is he a student of knowledge? Is he a listener? Or is he the fourth, may Allah forbid, who is perishing? If he examines himself and knows that he is not a scholar, and perhaps not even a student of knowledge, it is not permissible for him to step forward into matters that, if people followed him, they would be led astray in a far-reaching way and perish in a severe manner.