What is your opinion regarding someone who believes that speaking about religion is not exclusively reserved for scholars, citing that God commanded us to reflect and ponder upon the Quran, and that religion does not sanctify individuals, and therefore rejects interpretations, explanations of hadith, and the juristic reasoning of scholars, and sees that the Quran's ease for remembrance contradicts the calls of religious scholars for people to read interpretations and acquire Islamic legal knowledge?

This statement is worthless and reveals the ignorance of its speaker. Allah commanded the seeking of knowledge and praised scholars, as in His Almighty saying: "Allah will raise those who have believed among you and those who were given knowledge, by degrees." And He commanded asking the people of knowledge: "So ask the people of the message if you do not know." If people did not need a shaykh or a book, then why did the Companions and their successors ask questions? This speaker is either ignorant and must be advised and reminded of the obligation to refer to scholars, or malicious and aims to undermine their prestige. For scholars are the inheritors of the prophets; through them the Book was established, and through them they were established. The true Muslim is one who follows the scholars, and a Muslim must not delve into religious matters without knowledge.