Speaking about exaggeration in praising the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).

The Shaykh : ... the Messenger (peace be upon him). Respect for the Messenger, my brother, is achieved by describing him as he came. When we read the books of *Shama'il*, we find the issue... we read that he was a human being among humans, in the Qur'an and in the hadith, . Do you think we would be praising the Messenger (peace be upon him) if we said: he had four eyes on his face instead of two? Would that mean we exaggerated, honored the Messenger, and praised him? No, but we brought forth something extraordinary. However, was the Messenger like that? No. Did the Messenger accept for his Companions to call upon him in times of distress when they could not see him and he could not hear their voices? Far be it from Allah. The Messenger did not accept from any of them to associate him with Allah in wording by saying: . How can he leave Allah and cling to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and call upon him when he does not hear him? Do you think it is the Lord of the Worlds who hears the voices of those calling, or the Messenger (peace be upon him)? It is the Lord of the Worlds.
So this means that they attributed the attributes of Allah to Muhammad ibn 'Abd Allah, and this is shirk (associating partners with Allah) itself. This did not happen as a sudden outburst; the point is that it happened step by step in the previous manner. And the Messenger, out of his mercy for his followers, said to them: ; he cut off the root of shirk immediately. And he said: only. Therefore, we must not exaggerate. We have been, and still are, complaining about exaggeration in praising the Messenger (peace be upon him). Now, a new trend has emerged in the present age. In the name of praising the Messenger, we lower his status; that is, we are at two opposite extremes. In the name of loving the Messenger and elevating his status, we elevate him and place him in the rank of the divine (Mighty and Majestic), as you have heard. The new, modern trend, in the name of honoring and revering the Messenger, places him in the ranks of the heroes of the disbelievers and describes him as a genius. Neither this is the Shari'ah, nor that is the Shari'ah. The truth lies between them. The truth is what came in the Book and what came in the Sunnah.
And I will suffice with this much, and praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds.

The questioner : We thank our professor, Shaykh Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani, for this pleasant evening, and we ask Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) to gather us with him always. We also thank you for your good listening, and may Allah bless you. And pray with us that Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) expands this house for us. As for the Shaykh, he is traveling to Raqqa tomorrow, if Allah wills.

The Shaykh : If Allah wills.
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