The Meaning of the People of Knowledge in the Statement of Allah the Exalted: “So ask the people of knowledge if you do not know”

The Shaykh : And regarding the people of knowledge, we point out to people that they are not the people of knowledge in the Sufi sense. The people of knowledge are the people of the Qur'an. They are those about whom the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said in an authentic hadith in its transmission: , . The people of the Qur'an, of course, are those who reflect upon the Qur'an and do not contradict His statement (Blessed and Exalted is He): . These are the general Muslims who are not students of knowledge; if a matter arises for them, they must ask the people of knowledge. They are not the people of dancing in dhikr, nor are they the imitators who do not know the principles of the jurisprudential issues—where they were taken from, whether from the Book, the Sunnah, scholarly consensus, or analogical reasoning, and whether this analogical reasoning is correct or weak, and so on? The people of knowledge are the people of the Book and the Sunnah, following the methodology of the righteous Salaf. So the general Muslims who cannot be scholars or students of knowledge should always and forever verify in themselves this noble verse: “So ask the people of knowledge if you do not know.” This is what I am able to speak about in this blessed session, if Allah wills. The scope is broad and wide, and for every term there is a record.