The Shaykh's response to those who criticize the repetition of questions in his gatherings.

Abu Layla: Our Shaykh.

The Shaykh : Yes.
Abu Layla: Our brothers, may Allah guide them, generally speaking, this talk I am having is that they do not pay attention; the original state should be that they do not listen to many of your tapes. They repeat the issues... many of the issues.
Al-Awaisheh : ... .
Abu Layla : ... .
Al-Halabi: It occurs to the minds of some of the brothers, our Shaykh, among those who attended or who attend such gatherings or others, that they say, for example, our ShaykhThe Shaykh : Nasser is a great scholar in hadith and jurisprudence and so on, and unfortunately, people do not utilize this knowledge in the details of the issues. Most of their questions are repeated, and most of the sessions presented are repeated, and the matters are very simple. So, it would be desirable if a word were said to clarify this matter, our Shaykh.

The Shaykh: I will answer briefly, in our manner, with our brothers. I will say that those who say this are not with the repeated questions, nor with the questions that have not been raised. They do not ask, neither this way nor that way.
Al-Halabi: How is that, our Shaykh? I want to do like Gazi and more.

The Shaykh: I mean, those brothers who complain or...
Al-Halabi: They may say it out of concern for the time.

The Shaykh: Be patient. Those who complain or get bored of the repetition of questions do not ask at all. So why are they not like those who repeat questions frequently, and not like those who do not ask, but rather are in the middle? They ask, but about what concerns them, and about what has been asked repeatedly in the gatherings they may attend sometimes. This is from one aspect. From another aspect, but before I move on to the next, clarify now what I mean? Good.
Al-Halabi: Their criticism is on... the new, innovative thing.

The Shaykh: And from another aspect, I say that the repetition of questions, my brother, is very natural, because the one who is asking is either asking about himself or asking about someone else. If it is about himself, it is very clear that someone else asked the question before him, but he did not know of this question or its answer. Therefore, it is very natural for the question to be repeated in gatherings that varyThose present : in their attendees. This is very natural. This is with regard to when he asks about something he does not know the answer to, but he also does not know that this question had been asked before.

The questioner: Or the question was asked in the gathering and he did not understand the answer.

The Shaykh: You say, or it is also possible, but no, excuse me, but this is rare. What I am saying is that it is repeated always and forever. And I said earlier that it is permissible; he knows the answer, but he notices that there are people in the gathering who do not know the ruling he is asking about, so he asks about it. There will be people present around him who have heard the question more than once, so they say, why is he asking this question? We do not know. Here we return to meet our professor. Here we do not investigate his intention, do you understand how? Because we do not know what his intention is.
Abu Layla: Our Shaykh, of course, I have recorded much for you and have raised the same questions many times, but you, may Allah reward you with good, sometimes bring things within a question thatThe questioner : are things that did not occur to his mind, even changing... the answer, of course... there are new things. So I do not think that in my limit of two thousand tapes, a question gives the same answer, excuse me, meaning directly the same previous answer, except that there are other benefits, and then he gives the answer.

The questioner: May Allah will it.
Al-Awaisheh : ... in the mindThe Shaykh ... .

The Shaykh: No, I do not think he has it, nor does anyone else, because we do not possess the masses of people.
Abu Layla: Issues of Hajj, our Shaykh, when they come toThe Shaykh : and ask in the tent, sometimes the same question is asked, the same question... about the same issue. One is wrong, the second says, by Allah, one asked me a little while ago, go ask him.
Al-Halabi: The Algerians during the past weeks, and we are sitting... a stroll. The same question is repeated because it is a global problem, a national problem, they are all living in it. This is the Gulf crisis, look, fourteen tapes... .
Abu Layla: More than twenty, praise be to Allah, but we produced nine or ten.

The Shaykh: Let us hear what the brother's observation is?

The questioner : Peace be upon you.

The Shaykh : And peace be upon you.

The questioner : How are you?The Shaykh : ؟

The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, I am well.