Prohibition of joking and mocking with scientific rules
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: Some students of knowledge affect their speech and argumentation with their colleagues, such that one displays his knowledge of the principles and jurisprudential rules, and he mixes the jurisprudential rules with joking between him and his colleagues. What is the advice for these people? May Allah grant you success.
Answer:
Knowledge is not to be joked with. One may joke about knowledge, but one does not mock it, ridicule it, or make jokes with it. It is not permissible. Knowledge is respected; it has sanctity. I fear that he will be subject to the statement of Allah the Exalted:[At-Tawbah 9:65] Knowledge is respected, valued, and held in high regard, kept free from joking and laughter.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: Some students of knowledge affect their speech and argumentation with their colleagues, such that one displays his knowledge of the principles and jurisprudential rules, and he mixes the jurisprudential rules with joking between him and his colleagues. What is the advice for these people? May Allah grant you success.
Answer:
Knowledge is not to be joked with. One may joke about knowledge, but one does not mock it, ridicule it, or make jokes with it. It is not permissible. Knowledge is respected; it has sanctity. I fear that he will be subject to the statement of Allah the Exalted:
Say, "Is it Allah and His verses and His Messenger that you were mocking?"
قُلْ أَبِاللَّهِ وَآيَاتِهِ وَرَسُولِهِ كُنتُمْ تَسْتَهْزِئُونَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [3436/1712] النهي عن المزاح والاستهزاء بالقواعد العلمية - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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