What is your opinion of those who keep talking about breaking the shackles of inherited knowledge and catching up with civilizational progress, intending by this to reject the religion?

The questioner : Praise be to Allah, and may the prayers and peace be upon the Messenger of Allah.
Likewise, O honorable Shaykh, there are now many seminars and lectures being delivered, most of them abroad, that focus on what is called breaking the shackles of inherited knowledge and conducting a broad critique without detail on this matter. They take certain matters, such as the presence of Israelites or such things in some of what was transmitted from the Salaf (may Allah have mercy on them), and they generalize absolutely, saying that this inherited knowledge is shackles in the way of civilizational progress, and that we now have a great civilizational project and must advance and catch up with the ranks, and so on. So, may Allah reward you with good, is there a clarification of this issue?

The Shaykh : There is no doubt that if they mean by "inherited knowledge" a generalization, the implication of their generalization is that we should cast the Book of Allah behind our backs and cast what is authentic from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) behind our backs, because it is all inherited knowledge, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: If they want this, there is no doubt that if we do not say that they are outside Islam and apostates from it, they are closer to that than to faith And if they mean what was inherited from the Children of Israel in the form of stories that the state of the one to whom they are attributed refutes, then this is true, and we are with them. For example, whoever says that the story of Dawud (peace be upon him) in his saying that Dawud (peace be upon him) fell in love with the wife of one of the soldiers and that he ordered him to go fight so that he might be killed so he could take his wife, this is undoubtedly a lie and does not befit Dawud (peace be upon him). It is from the Children of Israel, and we must cut off its falsehood and that any woman, this is also undoubtedly a lie. So we deny such stories, and likewise the story of Sulayman and that the jinn took his ring, and the like of that. We deny all of this, and we are with them in rejecting it. As for the truth that is inherited, we reject whoever rejects it. Yes.