hear people calling a shaykh "mawlana" or saying "So and so is
mawlana" – is that permissible?
Praise be to Allah.
Firstly:
al-Wali and al-Mawla aretwo of the names of Allah, because Allah,
mayHe be exalted, says (interpretation of the meaning):
"Or have they taken (for worship) Awliya (guardians, supporters,
helpers, protectors, etc.) besides Him? But Allah, He Alone is the
Wali (Protector, etc.). And it is He Who gives life to the dead, and
He is Able to do all things"
[ash-Shoora 42:9]
"Allah is the Wali (Protector or Guardian) of those who believe.
Hebrings them out from darkness into light"
[al-Baqarah 2:257]
"And if they turn away, then know that Allah is your Mawla (Patron,
Lord, Protector and Supporter, etc.), (what) an Excellent Mawla, and
(what) an Excellent Helper!"
[al-Anfaal 8:40]
"Pardon us and grant us Forgiveness. Have mercy on us. You are our
Mawla (Patron, Supporter and Protector,etc.) and give us victory over
the disbelieving people"
[al-Baqarah 2:286]
"Say: Nothing shall ever happen to us except what Allah has ordained
for us. He is our Mawla (Lord, Helper and Protector)." And in Allah
let the believers put their trust"
[at-Tawbah 9:51].
And the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said:
"You are its Guardian (Wali) and its Lord (Mawla)."
Narrated by Muslim, 7081
See: Fayd al-Qadeer, 2/613; al-Qawaa'id al-Mathla, p. 15
Secondly:
It is permissible to call another person "mawlana" if he is Muslim,
but it is not permissible to say that toa disbeliever.
Some of the scholars said that it is permissibleto use the word mawla
to refer to a Muslim who is distinguished in knowledge or
righteousness.
The Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said to Zayd
ibn Haarithah: "You are our brother and our mawla."
Narrated by al-Bukhaari,2552
The word mawla may beused with reference to an owner, companion,
relative, neighbour, ally, supporter, lover, benefactor, recipient of
kindness, slave or freed slave. See: al-Qamoos al-Muheet.
Ibn al-Atheer said: The word mawla appears frequently in hadeeth. It
is a word that may be applied to many things. It may refer to the
Lord, the owner, the master, the benefactor, the freed slave, the
supporter, the lover, the follower, the neighbour,the cousin, the
ally, the son-in-law, the slave, thefreed slave, and the recipient of
kindness. It mostly appears in hadeeth and should be interpreted
according tothe context of the hadeeth in which it is mentioned.
Everyone who is in charge of a matter or undertakes a matter may be
describedas its mawla or wali.
End quote from an-Nihaayah fi Ghareeb al-Hadeeth, 5/227
Hence there is nothing wrong with giving this name to a person so long
as he is not a disbeliever.
Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) said:Section: The dhimmi
cannot be addressed as Sayyiduna etc
With regard to addressing (the dhimmi)as sayyiduna, mawlana and the
like (titles roughly meaning "our master"), that is definitely haraam.
End quote from Ahkaam Ahl adh-Dhimmah, 2/771
An-Nawawi said: Imam Abu Ja'far an-Nahhaas said in his book Sinaa'at
al-Kitaab: With regard tothe word al-mawla, we do not know of any
difference of opinion among the scholars concerning the fact that no
one should say "mawlaya (my master)" to another person. But I say: We
have seen in the previous chapter that it is permissible in all
casesto say mawlaya and there is no difference between (the two forms
of the word). an-Nahhaas was speaking of the word with the definite
article (al-mawla). Similarly, an-Nahhaas said: The word sayyid may be
saidto anyone who is not an evildoer, but it should not be used with
the definite article (as-sayyid) to refer to anyone other than
Allah,may He be exalted. But the more correct view is that there is
nothing wrong with saying al-mawla and as-sayyid (with the definite
article,with reference to people) subject to the conditions mentioned
above, i.e., a person maybecalled as-sayyid (with the definite
article) if he is a person of virtue and goodness, either because of
his knowledge or his righteousness and so on.If he is an evildoer or
there is some doubt concerning his religious commitment and the like,
it is makrooh to call him sayyid.
End quote from al-Adhkaar, p. 840. See also Mu'jam al-Manaahi
al-Lafziyyah, p. 535
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