Golden Words by Shaykh Anwar al-Awlaki

**Wild Wild West** · 13th February 2009

Today in the West there is a growing “Celebrity Shaykh” culture, were many young brothers and sisters are willing to hand over their collars to Shuyukh to “guide” them to wherever the shaykh in his infinite wisdom sees fit. In such an environment the truth needs to be proclaimed and when a scholar or daee makes a mistake it needs to be pointed out and retracted. I do not see this celebrity Shaykh culture as being a healthy thing for anyone; not the students and not the shuyukh. We all make mistakes and when we do they need to be corrected and if we make them public they should be corrected in the public sphere