What is the punishment of a Muslim disgracing other Muslims?

zeynep — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:11:32 +0000

Nothing can be done apart from warning him/her and giving good advice to that person. Religion is the main field of test. Discussions should be made to find the right way and such discussions are not in the scope of penal law. Difficulties caused by such behavior should be endured. The Glorified Allah commands:

“You will surely be put to test in respect of your properties and lives. And you will surely hear from those who were given the Scripture before you and from those who associate others with Allah much abuse. But if you be patient and guard yourselves – those are indeed the matters of determination.” (Al-e-Imran/ Family of Imran 3:186)

Being patient and cautious is the only way shown against disgracing words. The Messenger of Allah has suffered much from the hypocrites who converted to Islam and then returned; but he did not punish them in any ways. The Surah Al-Munafiqun is important from this aspect. You should read and heed on that Surah.

What is the ruling on taking drugs that include alcohol?

zeynep — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:05:12 +0000

Ethyl alcohol is actually the intoxicating substance in alcoholic drinks. However, it is already included in many foods such as bread, orange peel, ready-sold dough; and our body needs it to a certain extent. In Qur’an Al-Karim, the word ‘alcohol’ is not mentioned. The Glorified Allah forbids consuming intoxicants. However, drinks and other foods do not intoxicate as long as the ratio of alcohol within them reach a certain amount. If a substance includes sugar or starch, ethyl alcohol does emerge in it although you do not interfere. If you do interfere and add more than a certain amount of alcohol to drinks, they become intoxicant and haraam.
As a result, those drugs do not intoxicate and therefore are not haraam.

Is Human Khalifah -Viceroy- Of Allah?

ozkan — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:51:39 +0000

(KHALEF-SALAF ISSUE)

The Glorified Allah commands: “And when your Lord said to the angels: “I am going to place a khalifah on earth , angels replied: Will You place therein one who, mischief therein and shed blood? Whilst, whatever You accomplish is done therefore we submit to You, You accomplish the perfect. He said: Surely I know what you do not know.” (Bakara 2/30)

The one that substitutes somebody is called khalif or khalef, in English vicegerent or viceroy. Firstly, every person replaces the elder people in his family. His whole life is spent seeking for better and in certain moments he might acquire another person’s property, position or opportunities or might lose his.

All the conflicts between people spread out as a result of the fear of loosing what they own or from the desire of substituting one in his position. Those who opposed the prophets did it because of the fear of loosing what they owned- material goods or position-, too. Every prophet responded this so: “And I do not ask you any reward for it. My reward is only from the Lord of the worlds” (Ash-Shuara/The Poets 26/127)

While the angels were asking “Will You place in it one who, mischief in it and shed blood?” they were showing their concerns for this system. The Glorified Allah hadn’t said that it wouldn’t happen, but had pointed out that there were things the angels were not aware of.

Pointing to this verse as a support it is maintained that the human is the khalife of Allah. Khalife is the one who substitutes somebody and takes his position. The person substituted is missing, is weak or is dead. These cannot even be thought about Allah. In this case the human can’t possibly be the khalife of Allah, but only the khalife of another human. The Glorified Allah commands: “o Dawood! surely We have made you a khalife (vicegerent) in this land; so judge between men with justice. Do not follow desire, lest it would lead you astray from the path of Allah.” (The letter Sad 38/26)

Thus, Davood had obtained the throne of Talus, the previous ruler of that land. All the verses that are related with this topic show how people become the khalife of one another. Two of the verses are: “But his folk denied him (Nooh). So We saved him and those with him in the ark. We made them viceroys (khalife) and drowned those who denied Our evidences (ayats); see then what was the end of those warned.” (Yunus/ Jonah 10/73)

The sons of Israel said to Musa (a.s.) “They said: We have been persecuted before you came to us and after you came. He (Musa) said: It may be that your Lord will destroy your enemy and make you vicegerent (khalife) in this land. Then He will see how you behave.” (Al-A’raf/Purgatory 7/129)

We had this conversation with someone of wide knowledge:

- Can the human possibly be the representative of Allah? I asked.

- No, Allah didn’t make the Prophet a representative of His. He told him: “And if Allah had pleased, they would not have set up others (with Him) and We have not appointed you a keeper over them, and you are not placed in charge of them.
” (En’am 6/107)

“Then, it may be that you will give up part of what is revealed to you and your breast will become straitened by it because they say: Why has not a treasure been sent down upon him or an angel come with him? You are only a warner; and Allah is custodian over all things” (Hud 11/12)

- Can the human possibly be the khalife (viceroy) of Allah?

- Yes, because Allah told the angels that He was going to create a khalife (viceroy) on earth.

- Which one is a position of a higher level, the representative or the khalife?

- Khalife. The representative has the competences of representing while the competences of the khalife are wider.

- Then how can the human that cannot be even the representative of Allah, be His khalife?

- How do you explain that verse, the?

- If you look the related verses to Al-Baqara the 30th verse, you will notice that it is the demonstration of the khalef-salef system; the substitution of persons with each other. The opposite is not possible. This is against the meaning of khalife as a word and as a term. In addition, it provokes a very unpleasant situation. Thus the angels are saying that he who will substitute Allah is to be a bloody and quarreling being, so they look to be inferring that Allah is of bloody and quarreling nature. And it is obvious that both Allah and the angels are distant to these things.

- I am without words, he said.

See also the Chapter untitled “Tesbih and Takdis”.

El-Halil b.Ahmed. El-Ayn, Tahkik: Mahdi- El- Mahzumi, Ibrahim es-Samrai, Iran 1409, KH-L-F issue. B IV, page 267.

The words with this root KH-L-F, are mentioned in these verses of Qur’an: Al-Baqara 2/30, 66; Al-e-Imran 3/170; An-Nisa 4/9; An’am 6/133, 165; A’raf 7/ 69, 74, 129, 169; Yunus 10/14, 73; Hood 11/57; Ra’ad 13/ 11; Isra 17/76; Mariam 19/ 59; An-Noor 24/55; An-Naml 27/62; Fatir 35/39; Sad 38/26;. A total of twenty verses.

This person is Celal Boruhan, who worked for a long time as a member of the Fatwaa Council in Istanbul t ill the time he retired.

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What is the punishment of a Muslim disgracing other Muslims?

What is the ruling on taking drugs that include alcohol?

Is Human Khalifah -Viceroy- Of Allah?