What is the ruling on saying "Lady Aisha" or "Lady Fatima" and using the title "Lady" for the other Mothers of the Believers?

The questioner: Shaykh, I noticed that you said "Lady Fatima."

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner: There are brothers who are hesitant to say "Lady Aisha" or "Lady Fatima." They claim that the word "Lady" here implies sovereignty, and that sovereignty belongs to Allah alone. They say that using the word "Lady" here falls under the category of distortion, Shaykh.

The Shaykh: We can say to them: You intended one thing, but other things escaped your notice.

The questioner: Allahu Akbar.

The Shaykh: Did not the Messenger

The questioner : (peace and blessings be upon him).

The Shaykh: , , Did not the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say ? It is authentic that he said, when a man came to him and said, "You are our master and the son of our master, and the best of us and the son of the best of us," he said, , . And in another hadith, when it was said to him, "You are our master," he said: ... Based on this hadith, and therefore I say it is not permissible to take the issue from a single hadith.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh: One must gather the texts related to a single issue, and from this collection of texts, we derive the correct Islamic ruling. His statement (peace be upon him): appears in the first hadith I mentioned, when he said , that he feared that ... "You are our master" might lead Satan to drag him along, and that people might say about the Messenger (peace be upon him) what some Sufis say, for example, even today. They place a cup of water on this table, gather together, dance, recite poetry, and say:
"For from Your generosity comes the world and its harm *** And from Your knowledge comes the knowledge of the Tablet and the Pen"
The Messenger feared this kind of deviation for his Ummah, starting from the first step, "You are our master." And therefore he said (peace be upon him): . The scholars interpret this hadith in two ways. One is , meaning "Do not exaggerate in praising me." I consider this an interpretation that is not accepted. The other, which is the correct one, is : "Do not praise me," not because he does not deserve praise—no, he praised himself when he said: . And if we say he is our master, we are saying the truth, without doubt or hesitation. But it is from the perspective of blocking the means to harm, he said: , meaning "Do not praise me at all," not "Do not exaggerate in praising me," as al-Busiri himself also said:
"Leave what the Christians claimed about their Prophet *** And judge as you wish in him and appeal to him"
"Leave what the Christians claimed." What did the Christians say? "Son of God." Do not say "Muhammad is the Son of God." Say what you want, say "He knows the unseen."

The questioner: Hehehe.

The Shaykh: I did not say "Son of God." Allah is the Greatest. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) passed by a maidservant of the Ansar at a wedding one day, and she was singing and beating her hand drum, saying: "We have a Prophet who knows what is in tomorrow." He said: . Ah, so this al-Busiri says:
"Leave what the Christians claimed about their Prophet *** And judge as you wish in him and appeal to him"
No, that is not the meaning of the hadith. The meaning of the hadith is "Do not praise me at all." The evidence for this is that Imam al-Tirmidhi (may Allah have mercy on him) and may Allah reward him for Islam with the best, said in his valuable book *Al-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyyah*, "Chapter on the Humility of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family)," humility, and he mentioned this hadith with its authentic chain: . If the meaning of the hadith were as they say, "Do not exaggerate in praising me," this would not be a matter of humility; it would be a matter of obligation, because he is forbidding them from saying "Son of God," forbidding them from saying "He knows the unseen as Allah knows it." This ... But his humility was that he closed the door of praise to his Ummah, fearing that their tongues might slip, and they would fall into what the Christians fell into.