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**diundasmink** · 12-18-2009, 01:02 AM

As for being a 'Mawlana' then I am far from anything like that ... in fact the word Mawlana would technically translate to 'Our protector' and if anyone tells you that he is 'Mawlana' then know the first off he does not know Arabic.

Maybe according to the arabic language but the accepted istilah of the scholars is another thing.

Maybe there's a disagreement I didn't know about, but it aquired different meanings over time. The word maula, has been used to mean freed slave (I forgot which tabi'i, but there was a "mawla"/"freed slave" of ibn 'Abbas and I believe Nafi' was the "mawla"/"freed slave" of ibn 'Umar.

And it's seems to be in use amongst all Ahlus sunnah as a title of respect for the scholars, but maybe I missed a minority opinion?

I heard, an "ustadh" is qualified in one topic and a "shaykh" is qualified in all topics. I assumed ustadh can have ijazah in one book, and a shaykh has ijazah in beginners/intermediate/advance in all topics (tafsir, hadith, fiqh, 'aqidah, tasawwuf), correct me if I'm wrong.

12-18-2009, 01:02 AM	#16
diundasmink Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 539 Senior Member	As for being a 'Mawlana' then I am far from anything like that ... in fact the word Mawlana would technically translate to 'Our protector' and if anyone tells you that he is 'Mawlana' then know the first off he does not know Arabic. Maybe according to the arabic language but the accepted istilah of the scholars is another thing. Maybe there's a disagreement I didn't know about, but it aquired different meanings over time. The word maula, has been used to mean freed slave (I forgot which tabi'i, but there was a "mawla"/"freed slave" of ibn 'Abbas and I believe Nafi' was the "mawla"/"freed slave" of ibn 'Umar. And it's seems to be in use amongst all Ahlus sunnah as a title of respect for the scholars, but maybe I missed a minority opinion? I heard, an "ustadh" is qualified in one topic and a "shaykh" is qualified in all topics. I assumed ustadh can have ijazah in one book, and a shaykh has ijazah in beginners/intermediate/advance in all topics (tafsir, hadith, fiqh, 'aqidah, tasawwuf), correct me if I'm wrong.
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