The ruling on naming institutions after Ibn Sina
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The questioner:
He says: What is your view, may Allah grant you success, regarding the designation and naming of some educational or medical institutions, and others, after Ibn Sina? Does this constitute glorifying him?
The Shaykh:
This is not permissible; this is glorifying Ibn Sina. Ibn Sina was one of the materialists, and the Shaykh al-Islam has treatises explaining his condition and refuting him; this is well known. His father was from the Batiniyyah. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: My mother is hard of hearing.
The Shaykh:
And Ibn Sina was advanced in medicine; he was a Muslim with knowledge of medicine, and there is no problem with that. As for matters of creed and religion, he was a materialist, may Allah protect us from that.
He says: What is your view, may Allah grant you success, regarding the designation and naming of some educational or medical institutions, and others, after Ibn Sina? Does this constitute glorifying him?
The Shaykh:
This is not permissible; this is glorifying Ibn Sina. Ibn Sina was one of the materialists, and the Shaykh al-Islam has treatises explaining his condition and refuting him; this is well known. His father was from the Batiniyyah. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: My mother is hard of hearing.
The Shaykh:
And Ibn Sina was advanced in medicine; he was a Muslim with knowledge of medicine, and there is no problem with that. As for matters of creed and religion, he was a materialist, may Allah protect us from that.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 14/13 شرح تجريد التوحيد/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (53:53)
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