THE DAILY ISLAMIC REMINDERS. Yaumul Jumuat. 23rd day of Jumaadal Aakhir.. (Friday 5th February 2021).

ISLAM between BLASPHEMY and EXTREMISM Continues. BismilLaah. 

Let's continue from the reminder yesterday. If you couldn't receive it, please request for a copy before reading this one. 

Generally, the Prophet was commanded to endure any insult or mockery from his enemies which resulted from their bad character.

ALLAH says:

خُذِ الْعَفْوَ وَأْمُرْ بِالْعُرْفِ وَأَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْجَاهِلِينَ

Show forgiveness, enjoin what is good, and turn away from the ignorant. Quran 7:199.

Abdullah ibn Zubair explained this verse, saying:

أُمِرَ نَبِيُّ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَنْ يَأْخُذَ الْعَفْوَ مِنْ أَخْلاَقِ النَّاسِ

The Prophet was commanded to forgive the people’s bad character.

Sunan Abu Dawud 4787.

There are many recorded incidents in the life of the Prophet in which he was mocked, defamed, and even physically attacked for his faith in Islam, but despite this abuse the Prophet responded with patience, forbearance, mercy, and forgiveness.

In one incident, a group of Jews insulted the Prophet in his own home. Although the Prophet was the leader of Madina at the time, he did not order these men to be harmed. Rather, he used the incident to teach his companions an important lesson about kindness.

Our mother Aisha may ALLAH be pleased with her reported: A group of Jews asked permission to visit the Prophet and when they were admitted they said, “Death be upon you.” I said to them, “Rather death and the curse of Allah be upon you!” The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

يَا عَائِشَةُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ رَفِيقٌ يُحِبُّ الرِّفْقَ فِي الْأَمْرِ كُلِّهِ

O Aisha, Allah is kind and He loves kindness in all matters. I said, “Have you not heard what they said?” The Prophet said:

قُلْتُ وَعَلَيْكُمْ

I said to them: And upon you. Sahih Bukhari 6528, Muttafaqun Alayhi.

Al-Bukhari records this narration in his chapter regarding those who curse and abuse the Prophet, which strongly implies that he did not believe legal punishment should be applied to every case of blasphemy.

Badr ud-Din Al-Ayni, a scholar of the Hanafi school, comments on this chapter heading:

البخاري اختار في هذا مذهب الكوفيين فإن عندهم أن من سب النبي أو عابه فإن كان ذميا عزر ولا يقتل وهو قول الثوري

Al-Bukhari has adopted the method of the people of Kufi on this issue, that if someone curses or berates the Prophet and he is a non-Muslim citizen, then he is rebuked but he is not killed. This is the opinion of Ath-Thawri. Umdat al-Qari fi Sharh Sahih Al-Bukhari 34/412. To be continued in shaa Allah. May ALLAH keep guiding us all and increases us in beneficial knowledge. Aameen.