{"id":1610,"date":"2015-04-03T22:17:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T02:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darussaafi.wordpress.com\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2016-01-20T03:07:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T03:07:44","slug":"the-ruling-on-saying-a-person-is-not-in-need-of-introduction-shaikh-ibn-ul-uthaymeen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/?p=1610","title":{"rendered":"The Ruling on Saying A Person is Not in Need of Introduction &#8211; Shaikh Ibn ul-&#8216;Uthaymeen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><strong>Question<\/strong>: It is common on the tongues of the people to say: &#8220;So and So is not in need of introduction&#8221;. So what is the ruling on this statement?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer<\/strong>: &#8220;I see that no one should say that because if it is said that someone is not in need of introduction it means that everyone knows him. It is a lie. Is there anyone among you that everyone knows?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever level of popularity a person reaches among the people, it is not possible to say he is not in need of introduction. So like that, we say: this speech should not be said.<\/p>\n<p>The one who raises his voice says: Verily of the Messenger of Allah (\ufdfa) came here we would say: &#8220;verily he is not in need of introduction&#8221;. Do all the people know the Messenger (\ufdfa) ? No, not everyone. Those whom his message did not reach them\u00a0do not know.<\/p>\n<p>People have only come with this speech in order to praise the one they say this about. So like that, it is a lie and in it is extremism and exceeding the bounds. If you want to praise a person, then praise him for what he has [of good qualities] and do not exceed the bounds because exceeding the bounds in praise is an extremism that is prohibited&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>[Fataawa Al-Haram al-Makki 1418 no. 15 side B]<\/p>\n<p>Translated by<\/p>\n<p>Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan<br \/>\nAbu Sulaymaan<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: It is common on the tongues of the people to say: &#8220;So and So is not in need of introduction&#8221;. So what is the ruling on this statement? Answer: &#8220;I see that no one should say that because if it is said that someone is not in need of introduction it means that everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2678,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/2678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}