What is the ruling on addressing students with ugly titles such as (O donkey, O fool, O beast), when the goal is discipline?
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The questioner:
Your Eminence, this questioner says: Sometimes we address the boys, students, and the like, or the servants, with ugly titles such as
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
Sometimes we address the boys, students, and the like, such as the servants, with words.
The Shaykh:
Like what?
The questioner:
The servants.
The Shaykh:
The servants, yes.
The questioner:
With ugly titles such as O donkey, O fool, O beast, and the goal of that is discipline. The question is: What is the ruling on that?
The Shaykh:
This is not permissible.[Al-Hujurat 49:11] This is not permissible. If you want to discipline him, discipline him without calling him a donkey or a dog. Discipline him without this. Yes.
Your Eminence, this questioner says: Sometimes we address the boys, students, and the like, or the servants, with ugly titles such as
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
Sometimes we address the boys, students, and the like, such as the servants, with words.
The Shaykh:
Like what?
The questioner:
The servants.
The Shaykh:
The servants, yes.
The questioner:
With ugly titles such as O donkey, O fool, O beast, and the goal of that is discipline. The question is: What is the ruling on that?
The Shaykh:
This is not permissible.
O you who have believed, let not a people ridicule [another] people; perhaps they may be better than them; nor let women ridicule [other] women; perhaps they may be better than them. And do not insult one another and do not call each other by [offensive] nicknames.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا يَسْخَرْ قَوْمٌ مِّن قَوْمٍ عَسَىٰ أَن يَكُونُوا خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ وَلَا نِسَاءٌ مِّن نِّسَاءٍ عَسَىٰ أَن يَكُنَّ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُنَّ وَلَا تَلْمِزُوا أَنفُسَكُمْ وَلَا تَنَابَزُوا بِالْأَلْقَابِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [750 -954] ما حكم مناداة الطلاب بألقاب قبيحة مثل (يا حمار، يا سفيه، يا بهيمة) والهدف من ذلك التأديب؟ — youtube.com
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