The teacher saying to his student: O brother so-and-so
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Your Eminence! I am a teacher and I have young students whom I address with the word: O brother so-and-so! Is there any harm in that?The Shaykh: What?The questioner: I am a teacher, and I have young students in the first grade of primary school,I address them with the word: Brother so-and-so, and brother so-and-so, and brother so-and-so, so is there any harm in that?
There is no harm in it; because they are your brothers in faith.
The questioner: Some of my colleagues say.
The Shaykh: But I think you should say: O my boy! The questioner: O my boy! The Shaykh: Or O my son, that is better.
The questioner: May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh: So that the young one gets accustomed to respecting the elder;Because if you say to him: O my brother! This implies that you and he are on the same level, and what we should raise our children to is respecting the elder with the respect due to him.
The questioner: May Allah reward you with good.
There is no harm in it; because they are your brothers in faith.
The questioner: Some of my colleagues say.
The Shaykh: But I think you should say: O my boy! The questioner: O my boy! The Shaykh: Or O my son, that is better.
The questioner: May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh: So that the young one gets accustomed to respecting the elder;Because if you say to him: O my brother! This implies that you and he are on the same level, and what we should raise our children to is respecting the elder with the respect due to him.
The questioner: May Allah reward you with good.