A guiding word for students who wish to learn: What is the path they should follow so that they do not fall into such methodologies?
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The Shaykh : There is no god but Allah. We say, always and forever, that no one can climb to any knowledge without the assistance of those who came before them. It is obligatory for the later generation to benefit from the earlier one. Above all, students of this knowledge, and any other knowledge, must study it theoretically first. They should study it, if possible, under a scholar who is well-established in it, both theoretically and practically. If they study this knowledge through this method, if it is available to them, or through their personal study—and I believe, based on my personal experience, that this personal study is very difficult and requires patience, endurance, and fortitude, qualities that are rarely found in the hearts of many students of knowledge—then if the first method of studying this knowledge is available to them, it is the optimal method. If it is not available and they study it on their own, I advise them not to begin applying their theoretical study practically until they have established practical lessons for themselves, which they keep preserved on the shelf until after a long period. This is based, first, on their own opinion and continuous independent legal reasoning, and second, on the testimony of some scholars that they have become among those who can issue their judgments, whether correcting or weakening.
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