What is your advice to the Islamic Salvation Front and to the Muslims in Algeria?

The Shaykh : Is there anything else?

The questioner : Our Shaykh, there are still two questions. First, there is a question regarding the principles of jurisprudence, or the last question: What is your advice, first, to the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria, and may it reach them, if Allah wills, and to their men and to the Muslim youth in Algeria? May Allah bless you.

The Shaykh : And may He bless you. In light of what I have said and explained previously, I do not think I have anything new to offer as an answer to this question. However, I will summarize and say that I advise our brothers in Algeria and in all Islamic lands, whom Allah has granted a status and position among their Muslim brothers, to focus on knowledge by studying it, and that over time they will produce scholars who will take charge of teaching the Muslim people. Consequently, we advise this Muslim people with two things. The first is that they should turn to the scholars and seek their rulings in everything related to the affairs of their lives. The second is that they should not fall into what we observe in this country and others, where many young people, when they feel they have been given some understanding, reading, and writing, rush to issue rulings on what is permissible and what is not, declaring this forbidden and that lawful. They are deceived by the little culture they possess and forget the saying of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He: They know from the depths of their souls that they have not become scholars who are permitted to answer when asked. Despite this, they rush in the matter, declaring things lawful and forbidden based on this little knowledge they have, which does not justify them issuing rulings for themselves, let alone for others. All right. Knowledge of knowledge and acting upon knowledge, if Allah wills. Is that all? Are we finished?