What is the ruling on self-praise?
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Question:
The questioner asks: What is your view on what is currently happening among students of knowledge, where they praise themselves by saying, "I am a scholar," until one of them said, "I am a nation on my own"? What is the ruling on this statement?
Answer:
Experience is the test. We try it out to see if he is a scholar or not. The call to Islam is not sufficient. If he is a scholar, his knowledge will become apparent and we will know his knowledge. But if he merely claims to be a scholar, we do not know about him up to now.
The questioner asks: What is your view on what is currently happening among students of knowledge, where they praise themselves by saying, "I am a scholar," until one of them said, "I am a nation on my own"? What is the ruling on this statement?
Answer:
Experience is the test. We try it out to see if he is a scholar or not. The call to Islam is not sufficient. If he is a scholar, his knowledge will become apparent and we will know his knowledge. But if he merely claims to be a scholar, we do not know about him up to now.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم تزكية النفس؟ للشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com
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