The Ruling on a Teacher Praising and Encouraging a Student
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The questioner:
Yes. May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, the father. The questioner says: One of the teachers in some schools praised one of the students, then said, "The Sunnah is now to prostrate in the dust before me." So I forbade him from that and told him that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had praised some of his Companions. Then the students took this statement to be a Sunnah. What is the ruling on this statement?
The Shaykh:
Yes, it is as the students said. Encouraging a student of knowledge and praising him is a matter of encouraging and urging him in this, and it is a good thing. This is not the kind of praise that is blameworthy; rather, it is encouragement to seek knowledge. Yes, and one who does good is told, "You have done well." It also serves to urge his classmates to strive just as you do. So I see no harm in this.
Yes. May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, the father. The questioner says: One of the teachers in some schools praised one of the students, then said, "The Sunnah is now to prostrate in the dust before me." So I forbade him from that and told him that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had praised some of his Companions. Then the students took this statement to be a Sunnah. What is the ruling on this statement?
The Shaykh:
Yes, it is as the students said. Encouraging a student of knowledge and praising him is a matter of encouraging and urging him in this, and it is a good thing. This is not the kind of praise that is blameworthy; rather, it is encouragement to seek knowledge. Yes, and one who does good is told, "You have done well." It also serves to urge his classmates to strive just as you do. So I see no harm in this.
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