What is your advice to the young students of knowledge who delve into issues on which scholars have disagreed, authenticating and weakening narrations, such as the issue of covering the face for women?
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The questioner: O Shaykh, we see that many students of knowledge today are not proficient in the true research of hadiths, nor do they have jurisprudence in the issues. For example, the Eminence ofThe Shaykh : Ibn Baz or your Eminence orThe Shaykh : Muhammad, they are not proficient. They do not have a jurisprudential issue, for example, the uncovering of the face andThe Shaykh : Muhammad orThe Shaykh : Ibn Baz holds the view of covering the face, and they spend all their time in gatherings. It is their right to criticize the scholars, yet they are not proficient in jurisprudence nor in verifying hadiths... and they weaken hadiths and criticize the scholars. What is your opinion of this?
The Shaykh: What is this? This is not a jurisprudential question; this is a moral question. The student of knowledge should stop at the words of Allah the Mighty and Majestic:[Al-Isra 17:36]. So, students of knowledge should know their limit and stop at what they know about themselves. It was said long ago, "Whoever knows himself, he has known his Lord." It is not permissible for students of knowledge to enter into what they are not capable of handling, for that leads them to quarrels, boycotts, and writings that bring nothing but evil. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh: May Allah reward you with good.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.
The Shaykh: You have been generous with us.
The questioner : May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh: What is this? This is not a jurisprudential question; this is a moral question. The student of knowledge should stop at the words of Allah the Mighty and Majestic:
And do not pursue that of which you have no knowledge. Indeed, the hearing, the sight and the heart - about all those [one] will be questioned.
ولا تقف ما ليس لك به علم إن السمع والبصر والفؤاد كل أولئك كان عنه مسؤولاThe questioner : May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh: May Allah reward you with good.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.
The Shaykh: You have been generous with us.
The questioner : May Allah reward you.
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