What benefit are books without the Scholars

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Shaykh Saalih al-Fowzaan said:

And what benefit are many books with the loss of the scholars?

[Merely] having books is not enough.

The children of Israel perished whilst they had the Torah and the Bible.

When they did not have scholars to establish the [legislated] truth, they perished.

So the presence of books among us and the proliferation of books and the variety of books – [then all of] this is undoubtedly good, but it is not enough.

Because someone who reads these books without insight [from the scholars], misleads the people and thinks he is a scholar.


Translation originally published on 17 January, 2022.

Graduate of the Islaamic University of Madeenah, having completed the Arabic Language programme at the Institute of Arabic Language before progressing to the Faculty of Sharee'ah, from which he graduated in 2004. He currently resides in Birmingham, UK.

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