Is it permissible to mock a person for their physical appearance, such as being short or overweight, if they are content with it?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: Is it permissible to mock a person for their physical appearance, such as being short or overweight, even though he is content with it, or appears to be content with it?
Answer:
No, it is not permissible. Do not insult one another with nicknames. This is not permissible. Yes, but if a person is known by a specific description, such as being lame or blind, and he is known by that, then this is not a matter of belittling him; rather, it is simply that he is known by that description.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: Is it permissible to mock a person for their physical appearance, such as being short or overweight, even though he is content with it, or appears to be content with it?
Answer:
No, it is not permissible. Do not insult one another with nicknames. This is not permissible. Yes, but if a person is known by a specific description, such as being lame or blind, and he is known by that, then this is not a matter of belittling him; rather, it is simply that he is known by that description.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1939 -3022] هل تجوز السخرية من شخصٍ في خلقته كقصرٍ أو سمنٍ وهو راضٍ بذلك؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.