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Don't Call Me Sheikh

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Don't Call Me Sheikh

Mohammed HijabNow, you graduated from Azhar. Can we call you? No, I don't think you should, because the thing is, it's not just about knowledge. Because if it was, then maybe you should, as a matter of obligation. But it's about character.

And let's be honest, I don't know what it is and why it is, but it's just my character now, and everyone knows it. It's not... it's just too unco for that kind of thing, for that kind of marketing, right? It's not authentic for me to be calling myself that, even if I have the... you know, being a Sheikh is two things. It's having the knowledge, it's having the spiritual knowledge, it's having the knowledge and the Quran knowledge and all that kind of thing. And maybe if some people are being called it from that angle, there is... there is justification. But from the other side, it's actually carrying itself in a certain way, which I don't fulfill the criterion.

Like if I'm looking at myself from the outside, I wouldn't call myself Sheikh, genuinely speaking, like objectively speaking. So I don't... I wouldn't feel comfortable. I'd feel like inauthentic to myself if people call me that kind of thing. I actually find it a little bit laughable, to be honest. You're like a Sheikh, what? Tomato, screw.

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