The Ruling on Mocking the Religious and Diminishing Their Worth
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Question:
May Allah reward you and bless you. This brother, the questioner, asks: Shaykh, what is the ruling on mocking a religious person, diminishing his worth, and talking about him?
Answer:
If he mocks his religion and his adherence to it, then this is apostasy from Islam, and he is a disbeliever in Allah, His signs, and His Messenger, as it says:[At-Tawbah 9:65-66].
As for if he mocks him for his person only, not for his religion, that is a major sin among the major sins, but it does not take him out of Islam. In any case, mocking is not permissible[Al-Hujurat 49:11]. And Allah, Exalted and Majestic is He, said, "And among them are those who slander the volunteers..." The volunteers. He said, "Those who slander the volunteers in alms." [At-Tawbah 9:79] The volunteers. So it is not permissible to mock the volunteers. The Muslim has sanctity and has worth. Only the hypocrite mocks the Muslim, the one who has no religion, or whose religion is deficient, who has a deficiency in his religion, who is lax in his religion. This is a great danger for him. The important thing is that a person protects himself from mocking people in general, and mocking the people of religion in particular. Yes.
May Allah reward you and bless you. This brother, the questioner, asks: Shaykh, what is the ruling on mocking a religious person, diminishing his worth, and talking about him?
Answer:
If he mocks his religion and his adherence to it, then this is apostasy from Islam, and he is a disbeliever in Allah, His signs, and His Messenger, as it says:
(65) And if you ask them, they will surely say, "We were only conversing and playing." Say, "Is it Allah and His verses and His Messenger that you were mocking?" (66) Make no excuse; you have disbelieved after your belief. If We pardon one faction of you - We will punish another faction because they were criminals.
كُنتُمْ تَسْتَهْزِئُونَ لَا تَعْتَذِرُوا قَدْ كَفَرْتُم بَعْدَ إِيمَانِكُمْAs for if he mocks him for his person only, not for his religion, that is a major sin among the major sins, but it does not take him out of Islam. In any case, mocking is not permissible
O you who have believed, let not a people ridicule [another] people; perhaps they may be better than them; nor let women ridicule [other] women; perhaps they may be better than them.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا يَسْخَرْ قَوْمٌ مِّن قَوْمٍ عَسَىٰ أَن يَكُونُوا خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ وَلَا نِسَاءٌ مِّن نِّسَاءٍ عَسَىٰ أَن يَكُنَّ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُنَّThose who criticize the contributors among the believers concerning [their] charities and [criticize] the ones who find nothing [to spend] except their effort, so they ridicule them - Allah will ridicule them, and they will have a painful punishment.
الَّذِينَ يَلْمِزُونَ الْمُطَّوِّعِينَ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فِي الصَّدَقَاتِ وَالَّذِينَ لَا يَجِدُونَ إِلَّا جُهْدَهُمْ فَيَسْخَرُونَ مِنْهُمْ سَخِرَ اللَّهُ مِنْهُمْ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 7199- حكم الاستهزاء بالمتدينين والتنقص منهم - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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