Islamic Verdicts Regarding Those Who Mock Islam and Its Followers

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by  Various Scholars

Islamic Verdicts

Regarding

Those Who Mocfe

Islam and its Followers

SHEIKH MUHAMMAD BIN IBRAHIM AAL-ASH-SHEIKH
SHEIKH ABDUR-RAHMAN BIN NASIR AS-SA'DI
SHEIKH ABDUL AZIZ BIN ABDILLAH BIN BAAZ
SHEIKH MUHAMMAD BIN SALIH AL-UTHAIMEEN
SHEIKH ABDULLAH BIN ABDIR-RAHMAN AL-JIBREEN
SHEIKH SALIH BIN FAUZAN AL-FAUZAN
THE PERMANENT COMMITTEE FOR RESEARCH & IFTA
Islamic Verdicts

Regarding

Those Who Mock

Islam and its Followers

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Sheikh Abdur-Rahman Bin Nasir As-Sa'di
Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bin Abdillah Bin Baaz
Sheikh Muhammad Bin Salih Al-Uthaimeen
Sheikh Abdullah Bin Abdir-Rahman Al-Jibreen
Sheikh Salih Bin Fauzan Al-Fauzan
The Permanent Committee For Research & Ifta
Compiled by
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Translated by
Abu Muhaisin Abdul Ghani Isa
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Contents
Foreword 5
Introduction. 13
Question No.
1. Jesting by words that suggest kufr (disbelief)....... 15
2. Jesting by words that insinuate mocking of Allah
and His Messenger.................................................... 16
3. Statement that Leads to Disbelief (Kufr)............. 18
4. Acting recklessly towards the Holy Book of
Allah............................................................................. 19
5. Jesting by using the Verses of the Holy Qur’an... 20
6. Quoting Verses of the Qur’an.................................. 21
7. Ridiculing Islam is Kufr (Disbelief)....................... 22
8. Abusing Islam is (kufr) Disbelief........................... 24
9. Abusing Islam out of provocation.......................... 26
10. Abusing Islam and the Prophets............................ 31
11. Making Jest of the Religious Rites.......................... 32
12. Ridiculing the Sunnah (Legal ways) of Prophet
Muhammad (ifes^Mr?)............................................ 34
13. Making Jest of the Learned and the Righteous.... 35
14. Ridiculing the religious people, 36
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15. Ridiculing the staunch Religious Adherents. 37
16. Mocking the staunch religious adherents.... 39
17. Ridiculing the one who keeps a beard........... 40
18. Ridiculing the Veil (Hijab) 41
19. Ridiculing the lecturers............................................ 42
20. Studying the philosophy that involves derision
of the religion............................................................. 44
21. Abusing the religion of pen and paper.................. 45
22. To say: “I embraced Islam to show off and I will
revert back to my former religion”.......................... 46
23. To say: “I am a Christian” just to seek solace..... 47
24. To say: “This is a religion of superstition"........... 49
25. To say: “The knowledge of Savagery”.................. 53
26. To say: “There is dullness and rigidity in the
books of Aqeedah"..................................................... 55
27. To say: “He felt sick because of his strict
adherence to the religion”........................................ 55
28. To say: “Shaving the beard and raising the
garment above the ankles are trivial aspects of
the religion.................................................................. 58
29. To say: “O bearded Man!”....................................... 62
30. To say: “She is a demon or a mobile tent”........... 63
31. To say: “Beards are dirt”.......................................... 64
Conclusion.................................................................. 65
About Us (Invitation To Islam).............................. 67
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Foreword
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Verily, All praise is due to Allah. We praise Him and seek His
assistance and forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allah from the evils of
ourselves and the wickedness of our own deeds. Whomever Allah
guides cannot be led astray, and whomever He leaves astray, none
can guide him. I bear witness that no deity is worthy of worship
except Allah. And I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and
messenger.
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40 Mankind! Fear your Lord who created you from a
single soul, created out of it his mate, and from them
both He scattered (like seeds) countless men and women.
Fear Allah, through whom you demand your mutual
(rights), and be heedful of the wombs. Indeed Allah is
ever over you an observer. 2
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appropriate justice. He will amend for you your deeds
and forgive you your sins. And whoever obeys Allah and
His messenger will certainly be very successful. ^ 3
Verily, anyone who ponders the legal precedents of Allah (in the
universe), discovers that they occur century upon century, generation
after generation. This has been made so for the believer to learn
lessons and achieve admonitions. Verily, the fortunate one is he who
learns from the errors of others.
Allah declared some people non-believers as a result of vain talks
that signified mocking and disdaining of the signs of Allah and His
messenger 5^), and for taking the believers as objects of ridicule.
2 Surah An-Nisa: 1
3 Surah al-Ahzaab: 70-71
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Let’s have a look at what Ibn Khathir says about one who ridicules —
in his explication of the verse of Surah At-Tawbah [65-66] where
Allah says:
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#And if you ask them, they will surely say, “We were
only conversing and playing”. Say, “Is it Allah, His verses
and His messenger that you were mocking?” Make no
excuse; you have rejected faith after your belief. If We
pardon one faction of you, We will punish another
faction because they were criminals. V
Ibn Kathir (May Allah has mercy on him) comments on this verse as
follows: "Abu Mashar reported that a man among the hypocrites said:
these our so-called saints are not less gluttonous, fallacious and cowardly
them we do, during confrontation {with the enemies). When this
statement reached to the messenger of Allah the man who had
uttered it came on his camel pleading: “O messenger of Allah, we were
only conversing and jolting*. Thereupon the messenger of Allah
replied:
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4 Surah At-Thawbah: 65-66
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“Is it Allah, His verses and His messenger that you
were mocking...” ^>5
until the end of the above quoted verses.”
This was the reaction of the Holy Prophet towards him, despite the
fact that the man’s feet were covered in dust as he had clung to the
rein of the prophet’s camel pleading earnestly, but that could not
avail.
Abdullah Bin Wahb also reported on the authority of Abdullah bin
Umar ('fesSfe*) that during a gathering in the battle of Tabuk a man
uttered: "I have never seen people li/{e these our so-called saints. They
can be very gluttonous, deceptive and cowardly during confrontation
(with the enemies). A person among those who were present replied him:
“You have lied and you are a hypocrite. I shall inform the messenger of
Allah of your words”.
When news of this incidence reached the messenger of Allah, the
previous verses were revealed.
Abdullah Bin Umar added: “Verily, I have seen him (i.e. the man)
clung to the nose rope of the prophet's camel pleading, not even minding
the wounds his feet were sustaining while in that situation and was
saying: “0 messenger of Allah l “We were only conversing and jesting”
and the messenger of Allah was replying him: “Is it Allah, His verses
and His messenger that you were mocking? Make no excuse for
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you have rejected faith after your belief
5 Surah At-Thawbah: 65-66
6Tafsecr Ibn Kathir, [Surah At-Tawbah 65,66]
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Have you deliberated over this incidence and drawn comparison
between it and the state of some present day Muslims? Is there no
similarity between them?
One may say: “I only mean to hurt his person and not because he is
adherent to the teachings of Islam!
The reply is: Why don’t you make such jokes with those who are
disobedient to the messenger of Allah There stands no
need for citing instances from such kinds of people, for they are well
known.
We must fear Allah and observe our duty to Him. Allah can subject
you to a life of misery in this world and the hereafter as a result of
single bad word that you have uttered.
It is recorded in Sahih Al-Bukhari on the authority of Abu Hurairah
that the Prophet said:
“A man may utter a word displeasing to Allah without
considering it to be of any importance, but it will be the
reason for landing him into Hell”. 7
Abu Hurairah also reported that the Messenger of Allah
eSg§$) said:
7 Narrated by Al-Bukhari
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