What are the means of acquiring knowledge?

The questioner : What are the means of acquiring knowledge for a person?

The Shaykh : Acquiring knowledge, what is that?

The questioner : For a person.

The Shaykh : The means are many. One is to seek knowledge from the scholars. If that is not available to you, then from the writings of the scholars. This is a question of the utmost strangeness, because a person asks about something that is hidden and does not ask about something that is open and accessible. The primary schools, secondary schools, colleges, and universities, and so on, with their various specializations, are very well known. These terms whose names you have just heard were not known before, and there is no harm in them if they adhere to the rulings of the Shari'ah. What was known before was acquiring knowledge in the mosques in circles for studying Islamic knowledge and the sciences that lead to understanding the Book and the Sunnah. So the means are many, and very many. Yes.