How to criticize a scholar with adab:
"Asalaamualaykum. May Allah bless you. I would like to discuss what I find to be an error in one of your claims"
How not to:
"Authubillah you should be ashamed of yourself! I demand you apologize before me. For I am on the Haqq you fiend!"
Claims that the second represents "righteous anger" only solidifies the fact that one is being arrogant and demeaning.
As lay people especially, no one should approach a scholar as per the second example. This is disgusting and not part of the ethos of the Qur'an and Sunnah.
When critiquing a scholar, we should automatically assume they know more than we do and approach them respectfully (they may in fact have some information we aren't aware of).
In other words, don't abuse the "righteous anger" card when in fact it's anger of the nafs.
https://twitter.com/ProjectAndalus/status/1250934135717343234?s=19
"Asalaamualaykum. May Allah bless you. I would like to discuss what I find to be an error in one of your claims"
How not to:
"Authubillah you should be ashamed of yourself! I demand you apologize before me. For I am on the Haqq you fiend!"
Claims that the second represents "righteous anger" only solidifies the fact that one is being arrogant and demeaning.
As lay people especially, no one should approach a scholar as per the second example. This is disgusting and not part of the ethos of the Qur'an and Sunnah.
When critiquing a scholar, we should automatically assume they know more than we do and approach them respectfully (they may in fact have some information we aren't aware of).
In other words, don't abuse the "righteous anger" card when in fact it's anger of the nafs.
https://twitter.com/ProjectAndalus/status/1250934135717343234?s=19