Who makes fun of anything where mention is made of Allah or the Qur’an or the Messenger (SAW) (commits disbelief)
Who makes fun of anything where mention is made of Allah
or the Qur’an or the Messenger (SAW) (commits disbelief)
Allah the Most Exalted said:
“If you ask them (about this), they declare: ‘We were only talking idly and joking. ‘Say: ‘Was it at Allah (SWT), and His Ayat (proofs, evidence, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) and His Messenger (SAW) that you were mocking?” (9: 65)
Ibn Umar, Muhammad bin Ka‘b, Zaid bin Aslam and Qatadah (R.A.) narrated the following Hadith:
In the course of the campaign of battle Tabuk, a man came up one day and declared: “We have seen no people with greater appetite, more lying, more cowardly in battle than those people,” he meant Allah’s Messenger (SAW) and his Companions. Awf bin Malik rose and said, “In fact, you are the liar and a hypocrite (Munafiq) and I will inform Allah’s Messenger (SAW) about your words. “So he went to Allah’s Messenger (SAW) but by then He (SAW) was already informed through a revelation. Meanwhile, the hypocrite also approached Allah’s Messenger (SAW) when He (SAW) started journey and was already on His camel. He pleaded: “O Messenger of Allah! We were only joking and trying to pass the time while travelling.” Ibn Umar ( R.A.) said, “As if I see him that he was clinging to the saddle belt of the Messenger of Allah’s camel as it ran and his legs were being battered by the rough ground and even then, he continued pleading (i.e. we were only joking).” Allah’s Messenger (SAW) said, “Was it at Allah (SWT), and His Ayat (proofs, evidence, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) and His Messenger (SAW) that you were mocking? Make no excuse; you have disbelieved after you had believed.” (9: 65,66)
Neither He (SAW) looked towards him nor spoke anything further.
Important issues of the Chapter
1) It is a terrible thing that whoever makes fun in these matters is a disbeliever (Kafar).
2) The explanation given of the verse 9:65, applied to those who commit such an act, whoever they may be.
3) There is a difference between backbiting and admonition, and loyalty to Allah and His Messenger (SAW).
4) The difference between forgiveness which Allah loves and severity in dealing with the enemies of Allah.
5) Some excuses are unacceptable.