Shaykh Ṣāliḥ b. Fawzān Al-Fawzān was asked the following question after delivering a lecture on Being Upright on the Religion of Allāh, at a university in Saudi Arabia.
Question 3: Is it allowed for a student of knowledge who studies at this university to take knowledge from the Internet? [The questioner] says we have advised him but he says some scholars have allowed this.
Response: Knowledge is not to be taken from the Internet, cassettes (recordings) or books; rather knowledge is only taken from the scholars. Knowledge is through direct personal learning (al-talaqqī), one must learn and understand [knowledge] from the scholars. If knowledge could be taken from books, or whatever else takes their place, the scholars, in the past, would not have travelled to [other] scholars to learn from them and take knowledge from them. And Allāh the Lofty and Sublime said (what means):
And it is not (proper) for the believers to go out (in battle) all together. Of every troop of them, a party only should go forth, that they [who are left behind] may get instruction in religion, and that they may warn their people when they return to them, so that they may beware [of evil].
Meaning of Qurān 9:122
Thus, it is necessary to travel to the people of knowledge, to the Islamic universities and colleges, to learn Islamic knowledge wherever it is found, and a person must not suffice himself with browsing (reading from books), listening to cassettes or the likes; one only benefits by these things as utilities. As for depending on them and [then] considering oneself a knowledgeable person (scholar), this is a gross error, yes.
Al-Fawzān, Ṣāliḥ b. Fawzān. ‘Being Upright On The Religion Of Allāh’. Official Website of His Eminence Shaykh Doctor Ṣāliḥ b. Fawzān Al-Fawzān. Web. 12 Mar. 2015. Available at: http://www.alfawzan.af.org.sa/node/4439
Source: https://owaisalhashimi.info/al-fawzan-o ... knowledge/
Al-Fawzan On Depending On Books And The Internet For Knowledge
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Al-Fawzan On Depending On Books And The Internet For Knowledge
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