The Ruling on Mocking the Committed and Cursing the Religion
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Question:
The questioner says: What is the ruling on one who mocks those who are committed to the religion, insults the religion, and how should one deal with someone in this state? Your brother. One who mocks the committed and insults. Yes, and insults the religion. How does one deal with him, or how is he treated?
Answer:
If he mocks them for their persons only, this is a major sin among the major sins of shirk (associating partners with Allah),[Al-Hujurat 49:11]. So mocking them is a major sin among the major sins of shirk, regarding the persons. He mocks them for the sake of their persons only.
But if he mocks them for the sake of their religion, this is apostasy from the religion of Islam. Because he did not mock them for the sake of their persons; rather, he mocked them for the sake of the religion. We have not seen like the reciters here who were mocked for the sake of their religion. So mocking a person for his appearance, his dress, his shortness, or otherwise is a major sin, because it is not permissible to belittle a Muslim, whoever he is. But if he mocks them for the sake of their religion, this is apostasy from the religion of Islam, and that is what is intended now. The ninth, the eighth.
The questioner says: What is the ruling on one who mocks those who are committed to the religion, insults the religion, and how should one deal with someone in this state? Your brother. One who mocks the committed and insults. Yes, and insults the religion. How does one deal with him, or how is he treated?
Answer:
If he mocks them for their persons only, this is a major sin among the major sins of shirk (associating partners with Allah),
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
لَا يَسْخَرْ قَوْمٌ مِّن قَوْمٍ عَسَىٰ أَن يَكُونُوا خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ وَلَا نِسَاءٌ مِّن نِّسَاءٍ عَسَىٰ أَن يَكُنَّ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُنَّBut if he mocks them for the sake of their religion, this is apostasy from the religion of Islam. Because he did not mock them for the sake of their persons; rather, he mocked them for the sake of the religion. We have not seen like the reciters here who were mocked for the sake of their religion. So mocking a person for his appearance, his dress, his shortness, or otherwise is a major sin, because it is not permissible to belittle a Muslim, whoever he is. But if he mocks them for the sake of their religion, this is apostasy from the religion of Islam, and that is what is intended now. The ninth, the eighth.
Source
شرح نواقض الإسلام [ صالح الفوزان ]، الناقض السابع : السحر، ومنه الصرف والعطف — islamhouse.com (15:37)
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