What is the ruling on kissing the hands of one's parents or scholars?
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The Shaykh : ... with his hand the small prostration, and now you, the Salafis, are representing it.
The questioner : Is the kissing with placing the head on the hand?
The Shaykh : This bending without completing it...
The questioner : If one is greeting his parents, is it just kissing the head or how is it with the parents?
The Shaykh : No, there is nothing but a handshake.
The questioner : A handshake.
The Shaykh : May Allah have mercy on us.
The questioner : O Allah, amen.
The Shaykh : Do you know our friend Adib al-Ribat? Adib al-Ribat, his cousin is his neighbor, is he your brother? Do you remember him or not? This Adib al-Ribat was from the common Salafis in Damascus; he was a man of wit and jokes. Although he was almost illiterate, he would bring a friend of his, and it was usually one of the strays, trying to mean to straighten him out with the Muslims. He would bring him to me at the shop. He would say to me, but with all... I don't know how to describe it, humility, affectation, pretense. He would say, "I sold you so-and-so, so-and-so, the son of so-and-so, the one whom Allah is angry with but who obeys his parents, the one whom Allah is angry with but who obeys his parents." He would wake up in the morning after the sun rises, wash his face, and go to his father and mother and kiss their hands. May Allah be pleased with him, my son. But no prayer and no fasting, the one whom Allah is angry with but who obeys his parents.
The questioner : In front of the man he is speaking?
The Shaykh : In front of the man, he is his friend. The point is that what is currently in people's minds is that the pleasure of the father is acquired by submission to him and affectation toward him. It appears that this is a type of contagion that has spread to the young Muslim from the exaltation of scholars, which is by submission to them. And what is the sign of this submission? It is kissing the hand. But we, the Salafis, are always singing the same tune, we always sing the same tune, and we say:
"And all good is in following those who came before, and all evil is in innovating what those who came after have introduced."
But the Salaf were not like this, so we are not Salafis in this, and this is like that.
The questioner : May Allah preserve you, Shaykh.
The questioner : Bareheaded.
The Shaykh : Bareheaded, ah, one hadith in "Sahih Muslim,".
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good, he insisted that it is worship and not a custom.
The questioner : That walking bareheaded is imitating the disbelievers, and also it does not distinguish the bareheaded Muslim whether he is a Muslim or a Christian. Your comment, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The questioner : Is the kissing with placing the head on the hand?
The Shaykh : This bending without completing it...
The questioner : If one is greeting his parents, is it just kissing the head or how is it with the parents?
The Shaykh : No, there is nothing but a handshake.
The questioner : A handshake.
The Shaykh : May Allah have mercy on us.
The questioner : O Allah, amen.
The Shaykh : Do you know our friend Adib al-Ribat? Adib al-Ribat, his cousin is his neighbor, is he your brother? Do you remember him or not? This Adib al-Ribat was from the common Salafis in Damascus; he was a man of wit and jokes. Although he was almost illiterate, he would bring a friend of his, and it was usually one of the strays, trying to mean to straighten him out with the Muslims. He would bring him to me at the shop. He would say to me, but with all... I don't know how to describe it, humility, affectation, pretense. He would say, "I sold you so-and-so, so-and-so, the son of so-and-so, the one whom Allah is angry with but who obeys his parents, the one whom Allah is angry with but who obeys his parents." He would wake up in the morning after the sun rises, wash his face, and go to his father and mother and kiss their hands. May Allah be pleased with him, my son. But no prayer and no fasting, the one whom Allah is angry with but who obeys his parents.
The questioner : In front of the man he is speaking?
The Shaykh : In front of the man, he is his friend. The point is that what is currently in people's minds is that the pleasure of the father is acquired by submission to him and affectation toward him. It appears that this is a type of contagion that has spread to the young Muslim from the exaltation of scholars, which is by submission to them. And what is the sign of this submission? It is kissing the hand. But we, the Salafis, are always singing the same tune, we always sing the same tune, and we say:
"And all good is in following those who came before, and all evil is in innovating what those who came after have introduced."
But the Salaf were not like this, so we are not Salafis in this, and this is like that.
The questioner : May Allah preserve you, Shaykh.
The questioner : Bareheaded.
The Shaykh : Bareheaded, ah, one hadith in "Sahih Muslim,"
He was in a hurry, so he went out bareheaded.
كان مستعجلًا فخرج حاسرًاThe questioner : May Allah reward you with good, he insisted that it is worship and not a custom.
The questioner : That walking bareheaded is imitating the disbelievers, and also it does not distinguish the bareheaded Muslim whether he is a Muslim or a Christian. Your comment, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
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