The Scholars Are the Heirs of the Prophets, and Its Connection to the Disbelievers’ Cursing of the Prophets
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Question:
Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: You mentioned, may Allah reward you, what concerns the disbelievers’ continuous speech against the prophets and their cursing of them. Does this include their cursing of the heirs of the prophets, who are the scholars, since speech against them has become widespread? What is your guidance on this?
Answer:
Yes, they have a share of this, because they did not curse them for their personal selves, nor for any enmity between them or a mistake they committed. Rather, they cursed them for following the prophets and taking the sacred knowledge. So they receive from the blame what they receive from this. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said:[At-Tawbah 9:65-66] This is mocking the verses of Allah, because the scholars are the bearers of the Qur’an and the bearers of the verses of Allah. So if he belittles them and curses them for this, then he is charged with riba (usury or interest).
As for if there is enmity between him and them, or if they have wronged him and he has a worldly grievance against them. Yes.
Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: You mentioned, may Allah reward you, what concerns the disbelievers’ continuous speech against the prophets and their cursing of them. Does this include their cursing of the heirs of the prophets, who are the scholars, since speech against them has become widespread? What is your guidance on this?
Answer:
Yes, they have a share of this, because they did not curse them for their personal selves, nor for any enmity between them or a mistake they committed. Rather, they cursed them for following the prophets and taking the sacred knowledge. So they receive from the blame what they receive from this. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said:
(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.
وَلَئِن سَأَلْتَهُمْ لَيَقُولُنَّ إِنَّمَا كُنَّا نَخُوضُ وَنَلْعَبُ قُلْ أَبِاللَّهِ وَآيَاتِهِ وَرَسُولِهِ كُنتُمْ تَسْتَهْزِئُونَ لَا تَعْتَذِرُوا قَدْ كَفَرْتُم بَعْدَ إِيمَانِكُمْAs for if there is enmity between him and them, or if they have wronged him and he has a worldly grievance against them. Yes.
Source
تفسير حزب المفصل، تفسير سورة القلم [ الآية 41 إلى آخر السورة ] — islamhouse.com (52:37)
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