Answer First, Then Explain
One thing I noticed from al-Albānī in discussions is that he would often push the person to answer concisely first. Don't give me a lecture or a tour around the topic. Answer the question first. Then, after the answer is clear, expand if expansion is needed. And this is actually very important. Because many people do not answer questions. They react to them. A question is asked, and the answerer opens a whole folder in his mind: related issues, similar examples, side benefits, old arguments, emotional frustrations, half-connected principles, and a small marketplace of thoughts that were not asked for. And after five minutes, the listener is still waiting for the actual answer. Sometimes even the speaker is still waiting for the actual answer. He is speaking, but he is also searching while speaking. He has not reached the point. He is hoping the point appears somewhere in the middle of the speech. From there, you could see a concise answer acts like an anchor. It tells the listen...