Allahu Akbar, How many of us have read through books of communication ettiquites or manners or etc?
we go through counselling sessions and what have you but dear oh dear ! Muslims have you even once wondered that all these books have to offer when it comes to ettiquites are already taught by your prophet and his folllowers?
For example almost all the books on proper communication skills include how one must fully turn towards the person addressing us and pay attention to what he speaks .
this is the sunnah of the prophet sallalahu `alayhi wa sallam !!!
Another example of not interrupting people when they talk even if you happen to know what he was saying.
Sayyiduna Ibrahim Ibn Junaid (one of the earlier scholars of past centuries) rahimahullah said, “A wise man once said to his son, “Learn to listen properly just as you learn to speak properly.”“ Listening properly means, maintaining eye contact, allowing the speaker to finish the speech, and restraining yourself from interrupting his speech, even if you are aware of what he is saying.
This particular fatwa (advice/opinion) of Ibrahim ibn Junaid is something many many early scholars also gave. For example Abdul wahhab al-Quraishi al-Misri one of the companions of Imam Malik (d 93 Ah or 711 CE) and Layth ibn sa`ad.
Also by Khalid ibn Safwan at-tamimi (died prior 200 Hijri or prior 800 CE) said the same. he was the companion or advisor to both the khalifah `Umar ibn abdul azeez as well as Hisham ibn Abdul Malik
Even Imam sufyan ath-thawri from the first three centuries of Hijra calender and later on imam Khateeb al-Baghdadi said the same.
These manners are first and foremost taught by Islam ! open the widely available english translated book Adab al-Mufrad by Imam Bukhaari and read. Read how manners were something the Muslims had a Monopoly on. And now muslims forget their glorious ancestors and resort and credit tom dick and harry for ettiquites.
we go through counselling sessions and what have you but dear oh dear ! Muslims have you even once wondered that all these books have to offer when it comes to ettiquites are already taught by your prophet and his folllowers?
For example almost all the books on proper communication skills include how one must fully turn towards the person addressing us and pay attention to what he speaks .
this is the sunnah of the prophet sallalahu `alayhi wa sallam !!!
Another example of not interrupting people when they talk even if you happen to know what he was saying.
Sayyiduna Ibrahim Ibn Junaid (one of the earlier scholars of past centuries) rahimahullah said, “A wise man once said to his son, “Learn to listen properly just as you learn to speak properly.”“ Listening properly means, maintaining eye contact, allowing the speaker to finish the speech, and restraining yourself from interrupting his speech, even if you are aware of what he is saying.
This particular fatwa (advice/opinion) of Ibrahim ibn Junaid is something many many early scholars also gave. For example Abdul wahhab al-Quraishi al-Misri one of the companions of Imam Malik (d 93 Ah or 711 CE) and Layth ibn sa`ad.
Also by Khalid ibn Safwan at-tamimi (died prior 200 Hijri or prior 800 CE) said the same. he was the companion or advisor to both the khalifah `Umar ibn abdul azeez as well as Hisham ibn Abdul Malik
Even Imam sufyan ath-thawri from the first three centuries of Hijra calender and later on imam Khateeb al-Baghdadi said the same.
These manners are first and foremost taught by Islam ! open the widely available english translated book Adab al-Mufrad by Imam Bukhaari and read. Read how manners were something the Muslims had a Monopoly on. And now muslims forget their glorious ancestors and resort and credit tom dick and harry for ettiquites.
