Responding to Invitations to Honor Teachers and Teacher’s Day
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, a group of teachers are asking about the ruling on responding to an invitation to honor distinguished teachers and dining with them? A group of teachers are asking about the ruling on responding to an invitation to honor distinguished teachers and dining with them on the occasion of Teacher’s Day?
The Shaykh:
The matter of honoring teachers and those who excel in their profession is something with which there is no problem, because this falls under the category of showing respect, and there is no problem, of course, with eating from the food.
The questioner:
And what is your view, Honorable Shaykh, regarding participating in such? In these days. Which have started to become numerous, especially in the field of education.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
And what is your view, Honorable Shaykh, regarding participating in such? These days. Which have started to become numerous, especially in the field of education.
The Shaykh:
It is not permissible to designate a day or a month, or to say “Teacher’s Day” on such-and-such a day; these are festivals of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, these are festivals of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance. As for what was mentioned in the question, that a dinner party is held solely to honor those who memorize the Qur’an, or to honor retirees who have left, meaning departed from, their work, and to console them in order to comfort them and to encourage them for what they have achieved or the like of that, I see no problem with it. But to make this a day of the year and to repeat it, that is a festival. A festival is what is repeated every year, or every week, or every month. This is from the festivals of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance; it is not permissible.
The presenter:
May Allah grant you success,
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, a group of teachers are asking about the ruling on responding to an invitation to honor distinguished teachers and dining with them? A group of teachers are asking about the ruling on responding to an invitation to honor distinguished teachers and dining with them on the occasion of Teacher’s Day?
The Shaykh:
The matter of honoring teachers and those who excel in their profession is something with which there is no problem, because this falls under the category of showing respect, and there is no problem, of course, with eating from the food.
The questioner:
And what is your view, Honorable Shaykh, regarding participating in such? In these days. Which have started to become numerous, especially in the field of education.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
And what is your view, Honorable Shaykh, regarding participating in such? These days. Which have started to become numerous, especially in the field of education.
The Shaykh:
It is not permissible to designate a day or a month, or to say “Teacher’s Day” on such-and-such a day; these are festivals of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, these are festivals of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance. As for what was mentioned in the question, that a dinner party is held solely to honor those who memorize the Qur’an, or to honor retirees who have left, meaning departed from, their work, and to console them in order to comfort them and to encourage them for what they have achieved or the like of that, I see no problem with it. But to make this a day of the year and to repeat it, that is a festival. A festival is what is repeated every year, or every week, or every month. This is from the festivals of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance; it is not permissible.
The presenter:
May Allah grant you success,
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين [41] — alfawzan.live (1:19:12)
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