Does the author mean by the obligation to learn Arabic, grammar or meanings?

The questioner : Shaykh, may Allah reward you, learning the Arabic language is obligatory.

The Shaykh : Yes

The questioner : Is the meaning intended grammar or meanings?

The Shaykh : No, it is meanings. As for meanings, everything upon which the understanding of the Book and the Sunnah depends is obligatory, but it is a collective obligation. As for grammar, it is what is needed to know the Book and the Sunnah. A layperson may come and interpret a verse in the best possible way, and he is a layperson. And a grammarian may come who does not know how to interpret. Yes.