Some students conveyed to the Shaykh the situation of a journalist who insults Shaykh Al-Albani, and what is the most appropriate way to respond to him and discipline him?
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The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner: Peace be upon you.
The Shaykh : And upon you be peace and the mercy of Allah.
The questioner : How is our Shaykh doing?
The Shaykh: Welcome, how are you?
The questioner: May Allah honor you, praise be to Allah.
The Shaykh : If Allah wills, I am well.
The questioner: May Allah keep you in good health.
The Shaykh : You are welcome.
The questioner: Welcome.
The Shaykh: That is how you invite our student, andThe Shaykh : you do not invite him?
The questioner: Who is your student?
The Shaykh: Al-Khatib Muhammad.
The questioner: A wedding?
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: The invitation was not from me, O Shaykh!
The Shaykh: My brother, if you were
The questioner: I was invited, but it was at my house, heh heh.
The Shaykh: Hehehe.
The questioner: It was at my brother's house; the invitation took place at my eldest brother Muhammad's house.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: And a man, may Allah reward him with good, invited us and provided lunch, but we did not want to burden him, and we did not get involved in the invitations or anything else.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: I do not know anyone, I!
The Shaykh : Yes, may Allah reward you with good.
The questioner: But we want to invite you, O Allah, O Shaykh, when will you come?! Heh heh heh.
The Shaykh: Hehehe.
The questioner: We need an opportunity.
The Shaykh: No, it is just a word of jest!
The questioner: Our Shaykh, by Allah, we love you, O Shaykh, meaning if you attended every day.
The Shaykh : May Allah bless you.
The questioner: In fact, our absence from you has been long, so we want a meeting with you soon, meaning, and if Allah wills, it will be brief so we do not get distracted in it.
The Shaykh: By Allah, in any case, our guests whom we were busy with
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: They traveled yesterday.
The questioner : Yes, praise be to Allah.
The Shaykh: Now we need to make a new plan for our brothers!
The questioner: Okay, let me be at the beginning of the plan, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh: By Allah, there are many appointments, and very many indeed.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: We ask Allah to gather us with you soon.
The questioner : O Allah, amen.
The Shaykh: What do you have?
The questioner: I have a question that my brother Abu Salah had.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: And I promised him that I would ask you, and based on the answer, I will act!
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The questioner: There is a journalist, a male journalist, who prays in Abu Salah's mosque.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: And this man, meaning, is not polite, and meaning, he has spoken ill of many scholars, and among them was our Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: And I do not know, meaning, is he hateful toward you or something like that!!
The Shaykh: Yes, the Shaykh has the greatest share of this speaking ill.
The questioner: Praise be to Allah, this is from the grace of Allah.
The Shaykh: Because it is a reward, a reward, if Allah wills.
The questioner: An increase in rewards, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: So the man, meaning, insulted you in front of people, and it was reported to us, and glory be to Allah, I had a lot of anger toward this man, until one evening it happened and we did not hold back, it was just that we did not hit him, if he had had a share he would have been hit, but because it was in front of the mosque.
The Shaykh: Allah is the Greatest!!
The questioner: We kept it brief.
The Shaykh : There is no power and no...
The questioner: And I found at that moment that it was very appropriate to threaten the man with something, meaning, I did not want to do it, but I said this is because he does not fear except because he is from your country.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: He is originally from Syria.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: So I threatened him, I said to him: If you do not stick to your manners and limits, you will be exposed.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: And it happened, and now he is very afraid, and he promised to bring people and such, he wants to make peace.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: So I said to him: I and one of the brothers, I said to him: My personal rights, I have forgiven them, but if you expose the Shaykh or lack manners in the mosque, we will not forgive you. Now, it is as if he sent or urged Abu Salah that we want to make peace with you, Abu Salah told me, so I said to him: By Allah, not until we ask the Shaykh!
The Shaykh : You have done well.
The questioner: So what is your opinion now, do we make peace with such a man, or do I tell Abu Salah that the best of you is the one who starts with peace and such? I said to him: I do not know if this man applies to this statement or not!
The Shaykh: No, it does not apply.
The questioner: So then?
The Shaykh: Look, what I will tell you.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Tell him: What is between you and the Shaykh?
The questioner: We told him, yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Meaning, everything that is between him and me.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: And between me and him, there is nothing.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Did you notice the expression?
The questioner: Yes, I noticed.
The Shaykh: Between him and me, there will be something.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: But between me and him, there is nothing.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: So you ask him, what is between you and the Shaykh?!
The questioner : Ah.
The Shaykh: He will tell you: The Shaykh says this, andThe Shaykh : says that, and so on.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Okay, what is your business?! Meaning, are you his guardian?!
The questioner: My Shaykh, this is one of the people who does not listen.
The Shaykh : Be patient a little.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: I am not finished yet.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Second: You tell him: Did you meet with the Shaykh?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: He will tell you: For example, no, or he will tell you: Yes, I met, maybe once or twice.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Okay, what is your opinion that we make the condition of peace that you meet with the Shaykh and discuss with him the issues in which you disagree with him?!
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: We would have killed two birds with one stone.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: And it would not be, meaning, that we created peace without profit!
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Perhaps you understood me?!
The questioner: I understood, I understood.
The Shaykh: Okay, what is your opinion?
The questioner: I agree with that, I agree, but I must, meaning, first convey to you some details, meaning, for example, this man does not like to listen, as if there is a need in front of him that he does not want to hear. One day, our brother Abu al-Yusr, may Allah reward him with good, entered the mosque and found a gap in the row and stood in it, filling the gap, and his share was next to this man. So when the prayer ended, Abu al-Yusr, with his manners, was saying to him: I hope you are not bothered? And the man flared up and said: I held back my self, he said to him: I, my brother, may Allah reward you with good?! And meaning, the Sunnah and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), he said to him: And give all that you want to say, you know...
The Shaykh: What Allah wills!!!
The questioner: Heh heh, so Abu al-Yusr passed by!
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner: So now, meaning, your opinion, I do not know, I am ready to do it, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh: No, no, this does not change my opinion at all.
The questioner: I am ready.
The Shaykh: But understand me well.
The questioner: I understood, meaning, I repeat to the Shaykh, to him.
The Shaykh: No, no.
The questioner : Yes?
The Shaykh: There is still a continuation to the suggestion.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Tell him: You can limit the issues that you take against the Shaykh.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: I hope you have a memo, write it on the paper you have.
The questioner : Ah.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: Yes, yes, yes.
The Shaykh: First: You tell him: What is between you and the Shaykh, do you hear from him?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Ah, did you meet with the Shaykh? He will tell you: No.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: You tell him, okay, why do you not meet with the Shaykh to understand each other? Is he a Muslim or a disbeliever?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: And so on, here, it is necessary that something useful comes out with you, if Allah wills!!
The questioner : If Allah wills.
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Second.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: You have, whether he met with me or not.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Do you have the willingness to meet with the Shaykh?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: If he says: Yes, the continuation of the suggestion comes, and if he tells you: No, then you carry your stick over him.
The questioner: Heh, yes.
The Shaykh: You tell him: For what? Why do you not accept this meeting, you refuse to meet with him? Meaning, is he not a Muslim?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Is he not, meaning, a student of knowledge? And so on, from these words that are not hidden from you.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Ah, finally, he must agree for the peace, he must agree to the meeting.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Is it clear up to here?
The questioner: Very clear.
The Shaykh: Are you recording or not?
The questioner: It is very clear and recorded in my mind, I will give it all to you!!
The Shaykh: No, I fear forgetting, may Allah bless you.
The questioner: If Allah wills, I will record it now, I know it all, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh: My brother, may Allah bless you, you have solved it: I understood, I understood.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: But with the days, with the hours.
The questioner: I will record it now, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner: I will record it now.
The Shaykh: In the end.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: You tell him: Limit for me the issues in which you disagree with the Shaykh!
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: He must record them for you.
The questioner: He records them for me in one line?!
The Shaykh: On a paper, yes, yes.
The questioner: Good, yes.
The Shaykh: Ah, then you tell him: What is your opinion to meet with the Shaykh and discuss with him these issues.
The questioner : Yes, yes, yes.
The Shaykh: If he agrees, this will be a gain.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: And if he does not agree, peace with him is not permissible.
The questioner: Good, by the permission of Allah, that will be done.
The Shaykh: Is it clear?
The questioner : Is that clear?
The Shaykh: May Allah give you health!
The questioner: May Allah honor you!
The Shaykh : Welcome.
The questioner: Greet Abu 'Umar and Abu Ahmad for me.
The Shaykh: Oh, greet them all.
The questioner: May Allah keep you safe, it is as if he is one of them, Bashir takes the phone, allow him to speak with him?
The Shaykh: Oh Allah, in the name of Allah.
The questioner: Go ahead.
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner: Five days ago I asked you a question.
The Shaykh: Raise your voice!
The questioner: My brother, five days ago I asked you a question!
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: I told you, do the common people of the Jews and Christians have an excuse due to their ignorance?
The Shaykh: May Allah guide you.
The questioner: Okay, answer, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh: May Allah guide you.
The questioner: ... The Ummah of the call!
The Shaykh: May Allah guide you.
The questioner: Are they called to Islam?!
The Shaykh: May Allah guide you.
The questioner: Peace be upon you.
The Shaykh : And upon you be peace and the mercy of Allah.
The questioner : How is our Shaykh doing?
The Shaykh: Welcome, how are you?
The questioner: May Allah honor you, praise be to Allah.
The Shaykh : If Allah wills, I am well.
The questioner: May Allah keep you in good health.
The Shaykh : You are welcome.
The questioner: Welcome.
The Shaykh: That is how you invite our student, andThe Shaykh : you do not invite him?
The questioner: Who is your student?
The Shaykh: Al-Khatib Muhammad.
The questioner: A wedding?
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: The invitation was not from me, O Shaykh!
The Shaykh: My brother, if you were
The questioner: I was invited, but it was at my house, heh heh.
The Shaykh: Hehehe.
The questioner: It was at my brother's house; the invitation took place at my eldest brother Muhammad's house.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: And a man, may Allah reward him with good, invited us and provided lunch, but we did not want to burden him, and we did not get involved in the invitations or anything else.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: I do not know anyone, I!
The Shaykh : Yes, may Allah reward you with good.
The questioner: But we want to invite you, O Allah, O Shaykh, when will you come?! Heh heh heh.
The Shaykh: Hehehe.
The questioner: We need an opportunity.
The Shaykh: No, it is just a word of jest!
The questioner: Our Shaykh, by Allah, we love you, O Shaykh, meaning if you attended every day.
The Shaykh : May Allah bless you.
The questioner: In fact, our absence from you has been long, so we want a meeting with you soon, meaning, and if Allah wills, it will be brief so we do not get distracted in it.
The Shaykh: By Allah, in any case, our guests whom we were busy with
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: They traveled yesterday.
The questioner : Yes, praise be to Allah.
The Shaykh: Now we need to make a new plan for our brothers!
The questioner: Okay, let me be at the beginning of the plan, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh: By Allah, there are many appointments, and very many indeed.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: We ask Allah to gather us with you soon.
The questioner : O Allah, amen.
The Shaykh: What do you have?
The questioner: I have a question that my brother Abu Salah had.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: And I promised him that I would ask you, and based on the answer, I will act!
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The questioner: There is a journalist, a male journalist, who prays in Abu Salah's mosque.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: And this man, meaning, is not polite, and meaning, he has spoken ill of many scholars, and among them was our Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: And I do not know, meaning, is he hateful toward you or something like that!!
The Shaykh: Yes, the Shaykh has the greatest share of this speaking ill.
The questioner: Praise be to Allah, this is from the grace of Allah.
The Shaykh: Because it is a reward, a reward, if Allah wills.
The questioner: An increase in rewards, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: So the man, meaning, insulted you in front of people, and it was reported to us, and glory be to Allah, I had a lot of anger toward this man, until one evening it happened and we did not hold back, it was just that we did not hit him, if he had had a share he would have been hit, but because it was in front of the mosque.
The Shaykh: Allah is the Greatest!!
The questioner: We kept it brief.
The Shaykh : There is no power and no...
The questioner: And I found at that moment that it was very appropriate to threaten the man with something, meaning, I did not want to do it, but I said this is because he does not fear except because he is from your country.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: He is originally from Syria.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: So I threatened him, I said to him: If you do not stick to your manners and limits, you will be exposed.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: And it happened, and now he is very afraid, and he promised to bring people and such, he wants to make peace.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: So I said to him: I and one of the brothers, I said to him: My personal rights, I have forgiven them, but if you expose the Shaykh or lack manners in the mosque, we will not forgive you. Now, it is as if he sent or urged Abu Salah that we want to make peace with you, Abu Salah told me, so I said to him: By Allah, not until we ask the Shaykh!
The Shaykh : You have done well.
The questioner: So what is your opinion now, do we make peace with such a man, or do I tell Abu Salah that the best of you is the one who starts with peace and such? I said to him: I do not know if this man applies to this statement or not!
The Shaykh: No, it does not apply.
The questioner: So then?
The Shaykh: Look, what I will tell you.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Tell him: What is between you and the Shaykh?
The questioner: We told him, yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Meaning, everything that is between him and me.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: And between me and him, there is nothing.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Did you notice the expression?
The questioner: Yes, I noticed.
The Shaykh: Between him and me, there will be something.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: But between me and him, there is nothing.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: So you ask him, what is between you and the Shaykh?!
The questioner : Ah.
The Shaykh: He will tell you: The Shaykh says this, andThe Shaykh : says that, and so on.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Okay, what is your business?! Meaning, are you his guardian?!
The questioner: My Shaykh, this is one of the people who does not listen.
The Shaykh : Be patient a little.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: I am not finished yet.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Second: You tell him: Did you meet with the Shaykh?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: He will tell you: For example, no, or he will tell you: Yes, I met, maybe once or twice.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Okay, what is your opinion that we make the condition of peace that you meet with the Shaykh and discuss with him the issues in which you disagree with him?!
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: We would have killed two birds with one stone.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: And it would not be, meaning, that we created peace without profit!
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Perhaps you understood me?!
The questioner: I understood, I understood.
The Shaykh: Okay, what is your opinion?
The questioner: I agree with that, I agree, but I must, meaning, first convey to you some details, meaning, for example, this man does not like to listen, as if there is a need in front of him that he does not want to hear. One day, our brother Abu al-Yusr, may Allah reward him with good, entered the mosque and found a gap in the row and stood in it, filling the gap, and his share was next to this man. So when the prayer ended, Abu al-Yusr, with his manners, was saying to him: I hope you are not bothered? And the man flared up and said: I held back my self, he said to him: I, my brother, may Allah reward you with good?! And meaning, the Sunnah and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), he said to him: And give all that you want to say, you know...
The Shaykh: What Allah wills!!!
The questioner: Heh heh, so Abu al-Yusr passed by!
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner: So now, meaning, your opinion, I do not know, I am ready to do it, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh: No, no, this does not change my opinion at all.
The questioner: I am ready.
The Shaykh: But understand me well.
The questioner: I understood, meaning, I repeat to the Shaykh, to him.
The Shaykh: No, no.
The questioner : Yes?
The Shaykh: There is still a continuation to the suggestion.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Tell him: You can limit the issues that you take against the Shaykh.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: I hope you have a memo, write it on the paper you have.
The questioner : Ah.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: Yes, yes, yes.
The Shaykh: First: You tell him: What is between you and the Shaykh, do you hear from him?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Ah, did you meet with the Shaykh? He will tell you: No.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: You tell him, okay, why do you not meet with the Shaykh to understand each other? Is he a Muslim or a disbeliever?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: And so on, here, it is necessary that something useful comes out with you, if Allah wills!!
The questioner : If Allah wills.
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Second.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: You have, whether he met with me or not.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Do you have the willingness to meet with the Shaykh?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: If he says: Yes, the continuation of the suggestion comes, and if he tells you: No, then you carry your stick over him.
The questioner: Heh, yes.
The Shaykh: You tell him: For what? Why do you not accept this meeting, you refuse to meet with him? Meaning, is he not a Muslim?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Is he not, meaning, a student of knowledge? And so on, from these words that are not hidden from you.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Ah, finally, he must agree for the peace, he must agree to the meeting.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Is it clear up to here?
The questioner: Very clear.
The Shaykh: Are you recording or not?
The questioner: It is very clear and recorded in my mind, I will give it all to you!!
The Shaykh: No, I fear forgetting, may Allah bless you.
The questioner: If Allah wills, I will record it now, I know it all, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh: My brother, may Allah bless you, you have solved it: I understood, I understood.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: But with the days, with the hours.
The questioner: I will record it now, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner: I will record it now.
The Shaykh: In the end.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: You tell him: Limit for me the issues in which you disagree with the Shaykh!
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: He must record them for you.
The questioner: He records them for me in one line?!
The Shaykh: On a paper, yes, yes.
The questioner: Good, yes.
The Shaykh: Ah, then you tell him: What is your opinion to meet with the Shaykh and discuss with him these issues.
The questioner : Yes, yes, yes.
The Shaykh: If he agrees, this will be a gain.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: And if he does not agree, peace with him is not permissible.
The questioner: Good, by the permission of Allah, that will be done.
The Shaykh: Is it clear?
The questioner : Is that clear?
The Shaykh: May Allah give you health!
The questioner: May Allah honor you!
The Shaykh : Welcome.
The questioner: Greet Abu 'Umar and Abu Ahmad for me.
The Shaykh: Oh, greet them all.
The questioner: May Allah keep you safe, it is as if he is one of them, Bashir takes the phone, allow him to speak with him?
The Shaykh: Oh Allah, in the name of Allah.
The questioner: Go ahead.
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner: Five days ago I asked you a question.
The Shaykh: Raise your voice!
The questioner: My brother, five days ago I asked you a question!
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: I told you, do the common people of the Jews and Christians have an excuse due to their ignorance?
The Shaykh: May Allah guide you.
The questioner: Okay, answer, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh: May Allah guide you.
The questioner: ... The Ummah of the call!
The Shaykh: May Allah guide you.
The questioner: Are they called to Islam?!
The Shaykh: May Allah guide you.
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