The ruling on killing one who lies about the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)
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The ruling on killing one who lies about the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)
His Eminence the Shaykh: A person in the assembly is giving a sermon and says: Allah the Exalted said such and such, and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said such and such.
Then one of the innovators in the assembly said: This is a liar, and then he lied about the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), so this man took a knife and stabbed him. Does he bear sin?
It is better that the guardians of the victim and the killer refer the matter to the judge.
The questioner: He made a mistake regarding the Messenger! The Shaykh: I say: It is not permissible for a person to take matters into his own hands against the authority and kill any person.
The questioner: He lied about the Messenger! The Shaykh: But if he lied about the Messenger, the matter should be referred to the responsible authorities.
The questioner: The responsible authorities sometimes do not care! The Shaykh: I do not see that he should ever be killed; he should be warned with Allah,And he is told: You must repent; because even if he killed him now, would this not be a fitnah (trial, discord or temptation)? His relatives would come and kill this man.
The questioner: He lied about the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh: No, no, and even if he said, you are in the age of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation),And your statement is not accepted: If a man lied about the Messenger, and note that some people may have intense anger, and perhaps he utters this word out of extreme anger without controlling himself.
The questioner: Does he bear sin, or not?The Shaykh: The killer? The second one.
The Shaykh: He was killed now! The questioner: No, he was not killed, the killer.
The Shaykh: You are asking: Does he bear sin?I ask you, I tell you: The killer?She says: No! The questioner: The one who said it, the one who said it.
The Shaykh: We do not know; this goes back to this speaker. Did he say it in a state of agitation and extreme anger without controlling himself? If so, he bears sin.
His Eminence the Shaykh: A person in the assembly is giving a sermon and says: Allah the Exalted said such and such, and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said such and such.
Then one of the innovators in the assembly said: This is a liar, and then he lied about the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), so this man took a knife and stabbed him. Does he bear sin?
It is better that the guardians of the victim and the killer refer the matter to the judge.
The questioner: He made a mistake regarding the Messenger! The Shaykh: I say: It is not permissible for a person to take matters into his own hands against the authority and kill any person.
The questioner: He lied about the Messenger! The Shaykh: But if he lied about the Messenger, the matter should be referred to the responsible authorities.
The questioner: The responsible authorities sometimes do not care! The Shaykh: I do not see that he should ever be killed; he should be warned with Allah,And he is told: You must repent; because even if he killed him now, would this not be a fitnah (trial, discord or temptation)? His relatives would come and kill this man.
The questioner: He lied about the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh: No, no, and even if he said, you are in the age of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation),And your statement is not accepted: If a man lied about the Messenger, and note that some people may have intense anger, and perhaps he utters this word out of extreme anger without controlling himself.
The questioner: Does he bear sin, or not?The Shaykh: The killer? The second one.
The Shaykh: He was killed now! The questioner: No, he was not killed, the killer.
The Shaykh: You are asking: Does he bear sin?I ask you, I tell you: The killer?She says: No! The questioner: The one who said it, the one who said it.
The Shaykh: We do not know; this goes back to this speaker. Did he say it in a state of agitation and extreme anger without controlling himself? If so, he bears sin.