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Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said: “For the people who jeer and scoff at
others Allah will on the Day of Judgement open up a door of Paradise, and each of them
will be called to come there quickly. When they shall with great difficulty arrive near
there because of the great calamity which they will suffer, the door will quickly be closed
upon them. Another will open and they will be called thither. When again after great
difficulty they reach there, it too will be closed upon them. A third door will open. And
the same will happen. This will continue to happen until greatly frustrated and
disappointed they will not have the courage to go towards the door.” (Targheeb)
This is the punishment meted out to those who poke fun at and play the fool with a
Muslim. They too will suffer the same lot. Those people who poke fun at Muslims after
differing from them in simple matters, those who satirically portray them in cartoons
which they publish, those who,write satirical poems against them, should seriously
consider the consequences of their deeds upon themselves and ponder over them. They
should realise that as is the belief of the Muslim, the matter will not end here. Every
single deed of ours is registered in the Book of Deeds. Every single person is at all times
under the surveillance of the secret police of Allah - the Angels.
“Man does not utter a single word but there is near him an observer, ready.”(50.18)
Further the Quran states:
“Verily our Messengers pen down that which they plot.”(10.21)
This is indeed a time for thought and reflection. The teaching of Rasulullah (Sallallahu
Alayhi Wasallam) was:
“When a man abuses you with a fault that he knows is within you, then do not abuse him
(in return) for a fault which is in him. In this case the reward (of your restraint) will be
for you and on him will be disaster.” (Jami)
It is a pity that among us, when we want to abuse or villify anyone, or to take revenge on
him or to defame him, we do not even consider whether the evil we are throwing at him
is really a fault in him. No, we just accuse, even falsely and fabricate lies against him, Is
this the way we act upon the teachings of Islam?
If this is what we are doing, we are not actually taking revenge upon our opponents, but
what we are actually doing is to disgrace the name of Islam. How are others to know that
in doing what we are, we are actually acting contrary to Islam? How is a stranger,
unacquainted with true Islam, to know what Islam really teaches? How is he to know how
far we had strayed from Islam?
The stranger looks upon us as the picture, portraying Islam and so it should be. But do
they know that we have cast aside its teachings and today we are not even prepared to
Al- Eti’daal Fi Maraatibur- Rijaal 109