Decorating People With Labels
Source: Advice of sheikh Yaasir al-Adani to audio makers: https://t.me/aboammaar/5313
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I'd really love if we stopped decorating people with labels, especially the living.
No matter how "big" someone seems.
Just call them shaykh and move on.
Saves you from exaggeration and from saying things that aren't true.
Some don't even deserve the title shaykh, yet it's been used so much it barely means anything now.
Dr. Fayṣal al-Wādiʿī still treats the word with weight and refuses to adopt it. More people like that would be nice. May Allāh bless him.
When al-Albānī lowered himself and al-Wādiʿī said, "we're basically nothing at this point", what does that say about the rest of us?
Yes, that was humility. But also honesty. They knew the level of the scholars before them and knew they were nowhere near them.
Strange thing: the lower the level gets, the bigger the labels become.
عجيب.
Just call them shaykh and move on.
Saves you from exaggeration and from saying things that aren't true.
Some don't even deserve the title shaykh, yet it's been used so much it barely means anything now.
Dr. Fayṣal al-Wādiʿī still treats the word with weight and refuses to adopt it. More people like that would be nice. May Allāh bless him.
When al-Albānī lowered himself and al-Wādiʿī said, "we're basically nothing at this point", what does that say about the rest of us?
Yes, that was humility. But also honesty. They knew the level of the scholars before them and knew they were nowhere near them.
Strange thing: the lower the level gets, the bigger the labels become.
عجيب.