The Shaykh al-Halabi's interjection that the remedy for trials is to be occupied with knowledge, and Shaykh al-Albani's endorsement of this.
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Al-Halabi: Our Shaykh, this issue, meaning, it is not hidden from you that questions and talk about it have increased to the point where, meaning, it is almost suffocating. It is a right for the one who asks and inquires and finds it difficult; he has a right to this when he sees matters, meaning, going away from before him and behind him, if that expression is permissible.
The Shaykh: Yes.
Al-Halabi: But, meaning, my view, and this is a matter, meaning, as it is said, that we have benefited from you through these years, is that the greatest remedy is that we occupy ourselves with knowledge and da'wah. But because we now look at these matters and consider them to be the problem, and consequently we find no solution for them and remain sitting with our arms crossed, while others work and move, and we ask, "What is the problem and where is the remedy?" But if we occupied ourselves with beneficial knowledge and righteous deeds, as our Shaykh always repeats, along with calling to Allah to this methodology, establishing its rules, and grounding its general principles, then, O my Shaykh, if the number is small, it is in that that there is all the blessing.
The Shaykh: You have spoken the truth. This is indeed the obligatory duty. So, occupy yourselves with seeking knowledge from the correct scholarly sources, first the old ones and the foundations. Either you study al-Albani's fiqh, truly not from this letter but from his books, so that it becomes clear to you that these people, meaning, they distort and change al-Albani's words, and you proceed in your da'wah. Otherwise, we have no remedy except this beneficial knowledge and righteous deeds, as our companion said, "Do you have something?"
Other than that?
The Shaykh: Yes.
Al-Halabi: But, meaning, my view, and this is a matter, meaning, as it is said, that we have benefited from you through these years, is that the greatest remedy is that we occupy ourselves with knowledge and da'wah. But because we now look at these matters and consider them to be the problem, and consequently we find no solution for them and remain sitting with our arms crossed, while others work and move, and we ask, "What is the problem and where is the remedy?" But if we occupied ourselves with beneficial knowledge and righteous deeds, as our Shaykh always repeats, along with calling to Allah to this methodology, establishing its rules, and grounding its general principles, then, O my Shaykh, if the number is small, it is in that that there is all the blessing.
The Shaykh: You have spoken the truth. This is indeed the obligatory duty. So, occupy yourselves with seeking knowledge from the correct scholarly sources, first the old ones and the foundations. Either you study al-Albani's fiqh, truly not from this letter but from his books, so that it becomes clear to you that these people, meaning, they distort and change al-Albani's words, and you proceed in your da'wah. Otherwise, we have no remedy except this beneficial knowledge and righteous deeds, as our companion said, "Do you have something?"
Other than that?
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