The Shaykh’s admonition to those who claim affiliation with the Salafi call but lack knowledge and discernment regarding the Book, the Sunnah, and the understanding of the righteous predecessors.

The Shaykh : So, the verse divided people into two categories: the knowledgeable one to whom the ignorant one asks, and the ignorant one whose duty is to ask the knowledgeable one. They attribute to us the claim that we say the duty of these ignorant people is to understand what the scholars understood; this is impossible. It is from here that this lie seeps in, spreads, and becomes widespread. Perhaps it takes hold in the mind of some who have heard of the Salafi call in some of its details and adopted it, but this reality escaped them: that the Salafi call does not allow the ignorant to pretend to be knowledgeable. There is no difference in this point between the Salafi call and all other calls; the ignorant is ignorant no matter what he claims. But I state this reality for the understanding of the Salafi call. Although I find myself compelled to say that those who accuse the call of what it does not contain and the callers of what they are innocent of—I cannot deny, and this is an admonition from me to my brothers—that there are people among those who responded to the Salafi call who have not yet been able to become people of knowledge, those who are able to understand an issue by studying the texts of the Book and the Sunnah first, and then by relying on the statements of the early scholars who studied these texts from the Book and the Sunnah second. I say, with regret, that I cannot exonerate some of the enthusiastic brothers in the call from being a doubt for those who speak about the call and its callers, and a doubt for this writer who recently agreed with the partisans of madhhabism that the call of these people who have no discernment to follow the Book and the Sunnah is misguidance for them and expelling them from the religion.
So, here there are two matters. One concerns some of our brothers; I advise them not to rush to claim that they have reached a status and position where they can understand the texts of the Book and the Sunnah independently, by themselves and their persons, without relying on or turning to this vast heritage we inherited from our scholars, whose efforts and favor upon us we mentioned in the introduction of this talk. On the other hand, we inform those who attribute to the call what is not part of it that the call does not give the ignorant a field to understand the Qur'an and the Sunnah directly. But at the same time, I want to say...