Peace diwana
First of all, when I meant ‘good taste’ I meant it in the way that you could have answered the question for me. So I was saying that you are able to decipher the very thing you are asking me for yourself, there is no reason to ask that question.
The next thing is from that hadith you say it is “her wish” that is important, and I say if it was a matter of “abolishing a bad practice” then this would not have been allowed. Now this is a matter of conflict between us, we won’t resolve it at least acknowledge there is a basis for it, then we can move on.
Now what is it that Islam came to abolish? There are many seemingly ups and downs that Islam promotes not just this one …
The up and down of husband to his wife, the up and down of mother to her children over father to his children, the up and down of learned to a lay man, the up and down of elderly to the youth and so on … equality in the mind of the way the West has placed it will equate these two. Alhumdulillah it still has some respect for handicapped and elderly, familes over singles and so on.
The difference is that these ups and downs are role orientated and justice orientated. A slave is better than his master if he is more pious, but it does not say that the slave necessarily has to be free, however it is prefered to be this way.
Lineage is important. If we don’t have regard for the lineage then we won’t have knowledge of it … and knowledge of it is important for the Mahdi will be from the family, just one example.
Instead of looking at it in a bad way think of this. That if only pious outsiders are allowed to marry into Sayyids that will bear towards the piety of the family as a whole.
Also, there is a talk about this very topic and your last conclusion is in it. The Shaykh said that it is a greater responsibility of a Sayyid to be pious than members of other families.
Ok I agree you understand men and women relationships … you didn’t have to answer that part by the way … LOL
Peace to you bro