Warning Against Insulting One Another with Titles and Slandering the Scholars
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Question:
Peace be upon you, and Allah’s mercy and blessings. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may the prayers and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his Companions. And after that: Our greetings to our honorable scholars, and at their head, our honorable Shaykh, the scholar, Your Eminence, the father, Salih al-Fawzan, who, by the grace of Allah, has been recognized for his firmness in the methodology, and praise be to Allah. We ask our honorable Shaykh to point out a matter that has recently spread among some of the students, which is casting aside some of the honorable scholars to those who listen to them, calling them “these are al-Jami’s” and “these are al-Madkhali’s.” By this, they mean our Shaykh, the scholar (may Allah have mercy on him), Muhammad Ameen al-Jami, and our honorable Shaykh (may Allah preserve him and guide his steps), Rabee’ ibn Hadee al-Madkhali. May Allah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad.
Answer:
This falls within the answer I recently concluded. Leave these matters and this mutual insulting.[Al-Hujurat 49:11] So cast aside these matters and respect the scholars. Respect the scholars. Whoever does not respect the scholars is deprived of their knowledge and deprived of benefiting from them. So leave this matter of mutual insulting and speaking about the scholars who have virtue and who hold the status among people that Allah has placed them in. [Al-Mujadila 58:11] The scholars have their status, their rank, and their respect.
And if trust is not placed in the scholars, in whom is trust placed? If trust is removed from the scholars, to whom do people turn? This is undoubtedly a plot and undoubtedly infiltration among the people. So one must be alert to it, cast it aside, stay away from it, and forbid it. Yes.
Peace be upon you, and Allah’s mercy and blessings. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may the prayers and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his Companions. And after that: Our greetings to our honorable scholars, and at their head, our honorable Shaykh, the scholar, Your Eminence, the father, Salih al-Fawzan, who, by the grace of Allah, has been recognized for his firmness in the methodology, and praise be to Allah. We ask our honorable Shaykh to point out a matter that has recently spread among some of the students, which is casting aside some of the honorable scholars to those who listen to them, calling them “these are al-Jami’s” and “these are al-Madkhali’s.” By this, they mean our Shaykh, the scholar (may Allah have mercy on him), Muhammad Ameen al-Jami, and our honorable Shaykh (may Allah preserve him and guide his steps), Rabee’ ibn Hadee al-Madkhali. May Allah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad.
Answer:
This falls within the answer I recently concluded. Leave these matters and this mutual insulting.
and do not call each other by [offensive] nicknames
وَلَا تَنَابَزُوا بِالْأَلْقَابِAllah will raise those who have believed among you and those who were given knowledge, by degrees
يَرْفَعِ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنكُمْ وَالَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْعِلْمَ دَرَجَاتٍAnd if trust is not placed in the scholars, in whom is trust placed? If trust is removed from the scholars, to whom do people turn? This is undoubtedly a plot and undoubtedly infiltration among the people. So one must be alert to it, cast it aside, stay away from it, and forbid it. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-102-واجب الطالب الجامعي بعد تخرجه|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (59:54)
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