Reading a Chapter

The Shaykh: "The Path of Islam in Immortalizing the Greats: Perhaps someone will say: Is it not a form of loyalty for the Ummah to return some of the favor to its greats, who wrote glorious pages in its history through their deeds, by erecting material statues for them that remind later generations of their virtue and the glory they built? For the memory of peoples often forgets, and the alternation of day and night causes one to forget? The answer is: Islam dislikes exaggeration in the glorification of individuals. This is a good chapter to be read later, and first, there is no disagreement in it, and second, it has no connection to our topic... This chapter states: 'And if immortality among people is a must, it will not be achieved by erecting statues for the greats who are to be immortalized. The unique method that Islam approves of is immortalizing them in hearts and minds and on tongues, through the good and work they presented and the righteous deeds they left behind, which will be a truthful tongue for them in the hereafter.'"