His Excellency also spoke about the duty of scholars and religious specialists and mass media towards what those who affiliate themselves with religion and science in some Islamic countries and propagate innovations in religion, superstitions, and aberrations. His Excellency said,
We are at the end of the time (worldly life). We are now in the fifteenth century of Hijrah, in which ignorance has spread and knowledge has diminished, as the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said, Time will pass rapidly, ignorance will prevail, and religious knowledge will decrease. .
In addition, only very a few insightful scholars in Muslim countries exist while there are many bad scholars and charlatans who make the false claim of having knowledge while they are not scholars. They falsely affiliate themselves with knowledge but they are insignificant and valueless due to their lack of knowledge of the truth and their failure to support it. After all, the argument of dissenters, innovators in religion, and aberrants is weak; if not frail.
It is also the duty of scholars; those who support the truth and whom Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) has guided through His Book and through the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace be upon him) and enlightened them on the truth so that they knew the way of the Messenger (peace be upon him) and of the Companions, realized that victory undoubtedly comes through adherence to Allah's religion and carrying it out in precise manner. They call for it, recognize the Sunnah of the Messenger (peace be upon him), adhere to the true religion, and espouse what was brought by the Messenger (peace be upon him) to propagate Islamic Da`wah and refine the creed of innovations, aberrations and deviations.
Those are the scholars upon whom hopes are hung and who call people to the truth. Such scholars are required to patiently undergo harm, and preach Allah's religion, and explain to them the reality of Islam with which the Prophet (peace be upon him) was sent so that ignorance would be cleared, confusion dispelled, and truth would become manifest for those seeking it.