Calling her Sayyidah or Amira . . . . The Shaykh : This is just a name, a name that is nothing.
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The student: Calling her Sayyidah or Amira ....
The Shaykh : This is just a name, a name that is nothing.. Amira is a name, meaning: that she is from the princes, from the family of princes only.
The student: And Sayyidah?
The Shaykh : And Sayyidah like now the Sayyidah .... Every living person they call Sayyid.
The student: .....
The Shaykh : Every ..... they call her Sayyidah, and we have drawn attention to this previously and said: that this is adopted from the West who deify women, and that this is not what should be done, for this reason even some writers you find them saying: Sayyidah Aishah, Sayyidah Khadijah, this is not what should be done, rather it is said: the woman. Yes. And the female, as for Sayyidah this designation is not correct, especially since it is adopted from non-Muslims.
The Shaykh : This is just a name, a name that is nothing.. Amira is a name, meaning: that she is from the princes, from the family of princes only.
The student: And Sayyidah?
The Shaykh : And Sayyidah like now the Sayyidah .... Every living person they call Sayyid.
The student: .....
The Shaykh : Every ..... they call her Sayyidah, and we have drawn attention to this previously and said: that this is adopted from the West who deify women, and that this is not what should be done, for this reason even some writers you find them saying: Sayyidah Aishah, Sayyidah Khadijah, this is not what should be done, rather it is said: the woman. Yes. And the female, as for Sayyidah this designation is not correct, especially since it is adopted from non-Muslims.
