A chat about the title "Doctor."
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The Shaykh : I am bringing you news that I am bringing you... I have taken the title of Doctor, and you have no news of it!
The questioner : We have no news of it...
The Shaykh : ...so often... he has a doctorate, so he is Doctor Nasser or Al-Albani the Doctor. And stranger than that, this happened yesterday or the day before yesterday. A brother called me, what is his name? The Al-Albani brothers who pray in Zarqa, Ibn Nu'man, Ibn Sabit, do you not remember him... a blond man, his brother called me, his name is Muhammad, and he said to me, "It is written for you. He came from Algeria to the University of Jordan. It is written there: University of Jordan, Dr. Muhammad Nasser al-Din al-Albani..." We looked in the university; there are many Al-Albanis there, but no one named Muhammad Nasser al-Din. So I called you, what do you think? I told him, "In reality, this must be written for me, because these Algerians correspond with me a lot, and I correspond with them little, and I do not have time... So you find them always sending me clarifications with questions, and there is great activity now in Algeria for the Salafi da'wah, and they are under pressure, unfortunately. The point is, I imagine, I told him, 'This is Muhammad,' and here is the point: I imagine that this writer who sent it with this address is not connected to us in the past, but it appears that he was influenced by some of those who correspond with us, and he understood from them that we always ask so-and-so and so-and-so and call them on the phone, and we go to them, and so on. So he assumed in his mind that this must be a Doctor, and who wants to graduate from the University of Jordan? So he wrote the address: University of Jordan... And so I am telling you, I have taken the title of Doctor, but we are equal to them... No, I am not bringing you good news, because this is not good news, because this doctorate today is a certificate that brings no benefit and causes no harm. Rather, the truth is that a doctorate prepares its holder to advance if he exerts effort. But if he is content with this doctorate and goes to teach people these basic pieces of information that he acquired before obtaining the doctorate, he will not add anything for the people at all... -The adhan is established and the Shaykh repeats behind the mu'adhdhin - Turn to the right with your face. It appears that he needs a second half-tent, O 'Azmi... I mean, regarding your father's adhan, a second tent is needed... You must, O Abu 'Azmi, first raise your hands and put them on your ears, and second, turn with your head at the 'hi'lah, not with your chest. Your chest must be as you are in prayer facing the qiblah when you say the taslim. So when you say the taslim, of course, do not do what some people do: they say 'As-salamu 'alaykum wa rahmatullah' and they bow this extreme bowing: 'As-salamu 'alaykum wa rahmatullah!' They call it... No, but only a turn of the head. This qiblah, 'As-salamu 'alaykum wa rahmatullah' is with the neck only. 'As-salamu 'alaykum wa rahmatullah' is also during the adhan; you do not add to this turning. Your chest remains exactly as it is. That is why I told your son that a second tent is needed so that we can hear your adhan a second time. Mention it in the Sunnah, once after another, and time after time, and may our Lord gather us with you, if Allah wills.
The questioner : We have no news of it...
The Shaykh : ...so often... he has a doctorate, so he is Doctor Nasser or Al-Albani the Doctor. And stranger than that, this happened yesterday or the day before yesterday. A brother called me, what is his name? The Al-Albani brothers who pray in Zarqa, Ibn Nu'man, Ibn Sabit, do you not remember him... a blond man, his brother called me, his name is Muhammad, and he said to me, "It is written for you. He came from Algeria to the University of Jordan. It is written there: University of Jordan, Dr. Muhammad Nasser al-Din al-Albani..." We looked in the university; there are many Al-Albanis there, but no one named Muhammad Nasser al-Din. So I called you, what do you think? I told him, "In reality, this must be written for me, because these Algerians correspond with me a lot, and I correspond with them little, and I do not have time... So you find them always sending me clarifications with questions, and there is great activity now in Algeria for the Salafi da'wah, and they are under pressure, unfortunately. The point is, I imagine, I told him, 'This is Muhammad,' and here is the point: I imagine that this writer who sent it with this address is not connected to us in the past, but it appears that he was influenced by some of those who correspond with us, and he understood from them that we always ask so-and-so and so-and-so and call them on the phone, and we go to them, and so on. So he assumed in his mind that this must be a Doctor, and who wants to graduate from the University of Jordan? So he wrote the address: University of Jordan... And so I am telling you, I have taken the title of Doctor, but we are equal to them... No, I am not bringing you good news, because this is not good news, because this doctorate today is a certificate that brings no benefit and causes no harm. Rather, the truth is that a doctorate prepares its holder to advance if he exerts effort. But if he is content with this doctorate and goes to teach people these basic pieces of information that he acquired before obtaining the doctorate, he will not add anything for the people at all... -The adhan is established and the Shaykh repeats behind the mu'adhdhin - Turn to the right with your face. It appears that he needs a second half-tent, O 'Azmi... I mean, regarding your father's adhan, a second tent is needed... You must, O Abu 'Azmi, first raise your hands and put them on your ears, and second, turn with your head at the 'hi'lah, not with your chest. Your chest must be as you are in prayer facing the qiblah when you say the taslim. So when you say the taslim, of course, do not do what some people do: they say 'As-salamu 'alaykum wa rahmatullah' and they bow this extreme bowing: 'As-salamu 'alaykum wa rahmatullah!' They call it... No, but only a turn of the head. This qiblah, 'As-salamu 'alaykum wa rahmatullah' is with the neck only. 'As-salamu 'alaykum wa rahmatullah' is also during the adhan; you do not add to this turning. Your chest remains exactly as it is. That is why I told your son that a second tent is needed so that we can hear your adhan a second time. Mention it in the Sunnah, once after another, and time after time, and may our Lord gather us with you, if Allah wills.