Those Who Insult The Messenger
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Topic: Those Who Insult The Messenger
Posted By: Murabit
Subject: Those Who Insult The Messenger
Date Posted: 06 February 2006 at 4:30pm
The Fiqh Concerning Those Who Insult The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace
by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi
INTRODUCTION
Allah the Exalted has said in Surat al-Ahzab (33:57):
As for those who abuse Allah and His Messenger,
Allah�s curse is on them in the dunya and the akhira.
He has prepared a humiliating punishment for them.
In the Fiqh, as we shall see, there are absolutely no opinions, no variants, no exceptions. The matter is a clear one inside the Deen of Islam, that is, within the clear and active Fiqh as defined by our four Imams, Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Malik, Imam Shafi� and Imam Ahmad, may Allah be pleased with all of them. Outside the unified and powerful fortress of the Islamic Shari�at there is of course, in matters that should be definitive and non-negotiable, that very descent, diminution and longing to dismantle the Deen that is the mark of the kafirun. In this latter category can be found that other religion, Shi�ism, which wears the cloak of Islam while cursing its Khalifs and denying its people, as well as the Modernists, who, under the cloak of Islam, secretly long to adhere to the contract of Western scepticism, and their mark is their utter disdain for the Law of a taken Zakat, an Islamic currency, and an acceptance of the Imams.
Central to this issue is the significant failure of the kafirun to recognise what the key to the whole affair is. It is this failure that renders meaningless the triviality of their response on the one hand, and the malevolent hostility towards us on the other. The key of this affair is - that we, the Muslims, love the Messenger of Allah, may Allah be pleased with him. With us the whole affair is a matter of love. Millions of Muslims sing Al-Busairi�s famous song �Al-Burda� which pours out a flood of blessings on the Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and which brings tears to the eyes of the Muminun. Equally, millions recite the Dala�il al-Khayrat of Shaykh Jazuli. There are thousands more to be found written through the centuries by our Muslim community, expressing our love and gratitude for his existence.
Let us look again at Surat al-Ahzab. The ayat preceding the one which is foundation to the legal judgment which concerns us here is the Ayat indicating the higher, superior and more exalted community, those who love the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. We find Allah distinguishing the Muslims over and against the pagan hordes of ignorant people who insult the Messenger, and significantly, in the ayat which follows, indicates that the ones who insult the Messenger do not end there, but unjustly degrade the Muminun. Surat al-Ahzab (33:56-58):
Allah and His angels call down blessings on the Prophet.
You who have iman! call down blessings on him
and ask for complete peace and safety for him.
As for those who abuse Allah and His Messenger,
Allah�s curse is on them in the dunya and the akhira.
He has prepared a humiliating punishment for them.
And those who abuse men and women who are muminun,
when they have not merited it,
bear the weight of slander and clear wrongdoing.
Much of the aggravation that has resulted from the recent incident has in fact come from media both owned and operated by people who have a militant, and indeed military, opposition to the Muslim peoples. The man who re-launched the affair by publishing the cartoon in �France Soir� was one Arnault Levey. The notoriously prejudicial BBC TV rushed a man to the Central Mosque in London. The interviewer was a jew, and he deliberately picked out to interview the wildest and most incoherent in the crowd to confirm that silhouette which they are instructed to expose to the world. At Jumu�ah prayers he could have gone among the hundreds of highly cultured and educated Muslims, and could easily have picked out academics, barristers, and businessmen who would have put another face on the affair. Nevertheless, what the world has seen is that the World Muslim Community, who have tolerated the quotidian barrage of insults by the media, governments and military, this same community that has shown their sacred tolerance up to the chin - will not tolerate an attack on our beloved Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. Maybe, this time, they may find that THEY have to exercise tolerance. A tolerance which recognises that there is a vast world community of men, women and children who do not worship what they worship, and will never worship what they worship, and it is part of the reality of existence, and the sooner they come to terms with it, the better for them.
However you wish to configure and interpret the fury and the outrage of hundreds of thousands of Muslims across the world, there is another spectacle which the kuffar have to face up to - and that is the miserable emotional and spiritual bankruptcy of the Danish people, and indeed the crushed and bewildered denizens of the European Union fortress. From a human point of view, from a psychiatric point of view, the spectacle of the Danish bourgeois, living in their heavily subsidised reality, holding their silly candles, clearly revealed that they were all dismally unable to realise that living among them were a people for whom unseen realities were greater, more important, and indeed, a matter of life and death. The Danish people have come a long, long way from the christian writer, Kierkegaard. They have no fear and trembling for the Divine Lord of the Universe, only a fear and trembling of their bland, characterless existence of material welfare, purveyors of alcohol to the whole world, especially their own children.
Read the whole article from http://www.shaykhabdalqadir.com/content/articles/Art054_06022006.html -
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Posted By: abuayisha
Date Posted: 06 February 2006 at 6:14pm
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�Ibn al-Qasim said in the �Utbiyya, �Anyone who curses him, reviles him, finds fault with him or disparages him is killed.��
�The Fiqh is clear. There is no debate. There can be no opinion. The judgment has to be that the kuffar have to realize that we exist, and what is sacred to us we will never tolerate that it be violated.�
Do we really want to stir the passions of ignorant and misguided youth, having absolutely no actual ability or legitimate authority � like existed during the first three centuries of Islam? That was then, and now we have a very different circumstance. Certainly, in my opinion, such prompting will only cause greater harm and bloodshed. Is not blood also scared in Islam, and should not be violated? I am reminded of a nice children�s story�.
A Council of Mice
The mice, frustrated by the constant dangers of the cat, meet in council to determine a solution to their tiring challenge. They discussed, and equally rejected, plan after plan. Eventually, a very young mouse raised up on his hind legs, and proposed that a bell should be hung around the cat's neck.
"What a splendid idea!" they cried.
"Excellent suggestion!"
"Oh yes, that would very well warn of the cat's presence in time to escape!"
They were accepting the proposal with great enthusiasm and applause, until a quiet old mouse stood up to speak.
"This is, indeed, a very good suggestion and would no doubt solve our problems," he said, "Now, which one of us will put the bell around the cat's neck?"
It's one thing to propose. It's something else to carry it out.
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Posted By: Murabit
Date Posted: 07 February 2006 at 5:05am
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abuayisha,
Very cunning of you to take a sentence out of its proper context and then comment on it. The Shaykh, no where in the article, implied what you have suggested. Read the whole article in its entirety. Insulting the Messenger is no simply matter. And no, those ruling continued till the end of the Khalifate, 100 years ago. It was not a matter for the first three centuries.
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"I am a slave. I eat as a slave eats and I sit as a slave sits.", Beloved, sallallahu alyhi wa-sallam.
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Posted By: abuayisha
Date Posted: 07 February 2006 at 7:22am
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After having read the Shaykh's article, I posted sentences concerning what I believed to have been the essence of his speech. If you have understood something different, let us hear it, because being clear is what is important. Yes, insulting the Messenger is no simpy matter, likewise, our Shaykhs must be wise and responsible in thier comments and commentary.
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Posted By: Murabit
Date Posted: 07 February 2006 at 8:57pm
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Salam. In the article, Shaykh by describing the punishment for those who insult the Rasul, sallal lahu alyhi wa sallam, merely pointed out the severity and graveness of the matter. He certainly, for our specific case, was not endorsing killing of those Danish citizens as punishment nor was he encouraging any anarchic reactionary behavior. Furthermore, to carry out those punishments, you need Qadis, Amirs and Fuqahas and a Muslim community. Other things also need to be considered while a judgement is made. However, it must be understood by everyone that, no matter what, there can be no tolerance when the beloved of Allah, sallal lahu alyhi wa sallam, is being insulted. It is a crime, at least as far as the Muslims are concerned.
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"I am a slave. I eat as a slave eats and I sit as a slave sits.", Beloved, sallallahu alyhi wa-sallam.
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Posted By: Khadija1021
Date Posted: 08 February 2006 at 1:15pm
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Assalamu Alaikum
Regarding the treatment of prophets, Allah commands us thusly in the Qur'an:
2:285 The Messenger believeth in what hath been revealed to him from his Lord, as do the men of faith. Each one (of them) believeth in Allah, His angels, His books, and His apostles. "We make no distinction (they say) between one and another of His apostles." And they say: "We hear, and we obey: (We seek) Thy forgiveness, our Lord, and to Thee is the end of all journeys."
Amana alrrasoolu bima onzila ilayhi min rabbihi waalmuminoona kullun amana biAllahi wamalaikatihi wakutubihi warusulihi la nufarriqu bayna ahadin min rusulihi waqaloo samiAAna waataAAna ghufranaka rabbana wailayka almaseeru
That is, we are commanded by Allah to make no distinction between the prophets (bput). If someone insults any of them we should feel the same. The difference is that Christians and Jews do not follow the Qur�an. Just as the Jews do not believe that Jesus (pbuh) was a prophet, Christians feel the same regarding Muhammad (pbuh). However, it doesn�t matter what they believe, we, Muslims, are told to make no distinction between them. So, if they had posted such cartoons of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh), we should feel the same as if it had been the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). If not, we should ask ourselves why.
How should we feel and how should we act when someone defiles any of the prophets (pbuh)? We should act and feel as Allah commands:
2:177 It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces Towards east or West; but it is righteousness- to believe in Allah and the Last Day, and the Angels, and the Book, and the Messengers; to spend of your substance, out of love for Him, for your kin, for orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask, and for the ransom of slaves; to be steadfast in prayer, and practice regular charity; to fulfill the contracts which ye have made; and to be firm and patient, in pain (or suffering) and adversity, and throughout all periods of panic. Such are the people of truth, the Allah fearing.
Laysa albirra an tuwalloo wujoohakum qibala almashriqi waalmaghribi walakinna albirra man amana biAllahi waalyawmi alakhiri waalmalaikati waalkitabi waalnnabiyyeena waata almala AAala hubbihi thawee alqurba waalyatama waalmasakeena waibna alssabeeli waalssaileena wafee alrriqabi waaqama alssalata waata alzzakata waalmoofoona biAAahdihim itha AAahadoo waalssabireena fee albasai waalddarrai waheena albasi olaika allatheena sadaqoo waolaika humu almuttaqoona
That�s right, when we are faced with an adversity; we are commanded to be firm and patient. We are not commanded to be irrational, extreme or chaotically. We are not commanded to try and control the world, but rather, to simply control our self.
Ashukru-lillahi Rabbil-Alameen wala- hawla wala quwata illa billah
Allah Hafiz
Sister Khadija
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Say: 'My prayer and my rites, my living and my dying, are for Allah alone, the Lord of all the worlds. (Qur'an, 6:162)
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