The Creed and Reflecting on the Verses of Deception, Treachery, Betrayal, and Mockery

Question:
He says: The creed is the most important thing in the life of the believer, but the question now is that verses from the Noble Qur'an pass us by, such as those concerning betrayal, treachery, deception, and mockery, so how do we know these things?

Answer:
Creed is the foundation; it is the foundation of the religion. Creed is the foundation of the religion, meaning the faith in Allah and the Last Day, what a person believes about his Lord, His names and attributes, Paradise and Hell, and so on. These are the fundamentals of the religion that a person believes in: he believes in Allah and the Last Day, he believes in Paradise and Hell, he believes that Allah is One with no partner, that He is the sole one worthy of worship, that He is perfect in His essence, His names, His attributes, and His actions. He believes that Allah has forbidden shirk (associating partners with Allah), and that it is the greatest and ugliest of sins. He believes that Allah has made obligatory upon him the five prayers, zakah (the obligatory alms), fasting in Ramadan, and Hajj (the major pilgrimage) to the House of Allah if he has the ability. He believes that Allah has made obligatory upon him dutifulness to his parents—may Allah have mercy on him—and has made obligatory upon him truthful speech, while forbidding lying, talebearing, backbiting, zina (unlawful sexual intercourse), and all obscenities. This is a creed that is necessary. However, what concerns the contemplation of the Qur'an is a separate matter. A person is commanded to contemplate so that he may benefit. Allah the Exalted says: He urges them to contemplate. And He says, Exalted is He: So the Muslim is commanded to contemplate, and likewise the Muslim woman; every Muslim is encouraged to contemplate the Qur'an when he reads it, or when he hears it, reflecting upon it so that he may benefit. Thus, when he hears Allah the Exalted say: he asks: What is deception? And when he hears about mockery, he asks: What is mockery? Or when he hears about betrayal, he asks: What is betrayal?—so that he may benefit.
Deception is when one deceives you until he wrongs you, until he takes from you without right. He says words to you or presents things contrary to the truth, deceiving you in a commodity he buys for less than its price, or deceiving you in a matter he informs you of contrary to the truth, so that he may eat your wealth, or overcome you regarding something that benefits you, or the like. And betrayal is when one betrays you regarding your family, or your wealth, or your child. Allah says: and the like. So the one who betrays you regarding your wealth takes it without right, without your knowledge. He betrays you regarding your child by striking him, or by committing obscenity, or by committing obscenity with your wife. All of these are among the great prohibitions and major sins. We ask Allah for safety from them.
And mockery is well known: he mocks you, he mocks your speech, or your walk, or any aspect of your condition, whether with his tongue, or with his gesture, or with his lip, or the like of that in which there is mockery and ridicule. Allah the Exalted says: . He says so-and-so is such-and-such, so-and-so is a fool, so-and-so has such a characteristic, such a characteristic, so-and-so has such a characteristic. He mocks them and ridicules them and ridicules him. This is backbiting and mockery.
Or he speaks words that are not good. The explanation of that speech is that his speech is not good to speak, and that he is rambling, mocking his speech, or he points his fingers at him, looking at his eye, looking at his leg because it is crooked, mocking him, or looking at his combed hair that is straight, or his face which is not good-looking, or the like of this mockery by gesture. It may be by the eye, by the gesture; he may also gesture with the eye.
So the point is that it is obligatory upon the believer not to mock, nor to ridicule his brother, not with words, not with the tongue, not with the lip, and not with gesture. Yes.