Abu Taymiyyah – The 6 Conditions of Joking
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This is now the juicy part of the
lecture,
the conditions of joking. Now that we've established
that
Masin salaam did
make jokes with his companions, did play around
with them.
He wasn't a moody type of person that
we may think,
or how the media portrays him to be.
A bloodthirsty
barbaric individual who never smiles, and and when
they do draw him, and he looks all
dejected and angry and furious,
Jareebna Abdallah al Bejari said never did a
messalay or some ever look at me except
they were smiling.
So what are the 6 conditions?
Condition number 1, when you do joke,
you don't mock the Deen of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
This my brothers and my sisters
takes you out the fold of Al Islam
Even if you are joking, don't turn around
and say I was only joking. He knows
he's wrong but then he turns around and
says I was just joking.
Why does he take you at the Deen
of Alissam?
There was an incident that took place,
I believe the Ghazwa
of Tabuk,
expedition of
Tabuk. But one of the
participants of this battle
began to make fun of the Messenger sallallahu
alayhi was and his companions. You know what
he said?
I didn't see anybody like them.
Those who are,
or anyone more than them who is or
should I say, anyone who is more cowardly,
lying,
and who want food so much,
or more cowardly
lying,
and who
love to eat more than them people.
Is that a joke brothers and sisters?
To say that about the medsulal alaihis companions?
That's not a joke.
One of the companions heard and he got
he became furious
and went running to the messenger salal alayhi
was, and by that time, the messenger salal
alayhi was already informed
by way of revelation and the verses came
down.
What were the verses?
If you ask them
why they did that, they would say it
was only joking, it was only playing.
We only said whatever we said
to pass time.
And Allah says,
Was it that you mocked Allah?
His verses,
His signs,
and
His
Messenger?
Don't make any more excuses.
Indeed you have disbelieved
after iman came to you, and they were
joking,
and Allah is telling us they've left the
fold of Islam.
Who got away?
He's become a kafir.
And we might sit around
spectating,
laughing and joking, and maybe even forwarding it
to others.
I remember, SubhanAllah,
very very long time ago, right?
I was playing football,
Leicester, Spinal Park,
and then there was his brother.
I still see
walking around from time to time,
and
every time he scored, he would turn around
and he would do this,
pointing to Jesus, he goes, thanks to Jesus.
And he would also say every time he's
called, the Quran is a Harry Potter book.
Quran is a Harry Potter book.
This is an example of someone,
right, when uttering such statement would
expel his own soul from the Deen of
Allah Azza wa Jal.
People are mocking the salah in the,
and videos that are spreading on TikTok.
It's sad. I'm sure every single one of
us have come across these kind of videos,
right?
Second one
that when you do joke,
you joke truthfully.
Prophet said in hadith,
Woe to the 1.
When he jokes,
he lies in order to make people laugh.
Mess Allah has made dua against him.
And what did Jaimna Abdullah
say to the messenger Allah that I mentioned
earlier? Oh Messenger of Allah,
you play with us.
He said, Naaam, yes I do, but I
don't say other than the truth when I
do
joke and play with you.
He spoke the truth.
The reason why I'm very, very passionate about
this topic, my brothers and my sisters, many,
many years back,
one of my relatives came up to me
and he told me that my grandmother, she
fell from the balcony.
How do you think my reaction is going
to be when somebody says that to me?
He'll be shocked,
sir. And then he turns around and he
says, oh, April fools day, and he walk
runs off.
Is that really a joke?
3rd condition was,
we haven't taken it
yet.
When you do joke,
you don't terrify the one that you're joking
with.
How many times have I seen at the
bus stop?
People are standing around, maybe even classmates,
The bus has come in, grabs him, does
this, and then pulls him back.
Sahir?
Witnessed that before? And he says, I was
just joking, don't get angry. What you mean
don't get angry?
He just
terrified me.
And the time when the messenger sallallahu alaihi
wasallam, as Abdulhamani ibn alaihi wasallam, he mentioned
that they were traveling with the messenger sallallahu
alaihi wasallam to war.
One of the companions went to sleep and
he had a habil,
he had a rope.
Right?
After he woke up, he was shocked. Where
has he gone? He started looking for it.
And then the messenger when he saw this,
right? He told the companions who took it
for a joke,
It is not lawful for a Muslim to
terrify another Muslim.
Sometimes you find,
guys running behind you,
making these dog noises,
or scaring you while you're asleep.
Or today, what do they do? He takes
water
while somebody's sleeping and he pours on his
face, and then he walks up in shock.
He wakes up in shock.
TikTok.
TikTok.
This is a reality, brothers.
We're not here to speak about generics. We're
here to tackle current issues.
These are some serious things
that does not fall in line with what
pleases Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
The 4th one brothers
and sisters is
not to be excessive
in the jokes that you make. Prophet said,
to me it's alqalb.
Don't be excessive in joking, don't become known
as a joker, as a clown.
Excessive joking, it kills the heart. See how
you feel at times when you're sitting around
and you're just engaging in false talk,
making jokes about others, and,
ridiculing this one, that one.
See how you feel after that. I felt
like that before.
I didn't know or understand the reason why.
Didn't think that it was haram, but we'd
feel that kind of, like, emptiness in our
hearts. Right?
Perhaps maybe because of that.
Even Amr Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu he said,
Whoever is excessive in making jokes,
people will never take him seriously.
People will never take him seriously. You'll always
be the class clown,
the joker.
And when you want to be serious, they'll
start laughing at you. Number 5,
not mocking and ridiculing others when making jokes.
What did Allah Azar say in Surat al
Hujurat, which teaches a lot of
etiquettes? Oh, you who believe, do not mock
and ridicule and make fun of one another.
They what if that individual doesn't mind?
Do you mind if I make jokes on
you? Because, well, I don't mind.
Allahu Akbar.
He doesn't mind.
We're living in that kind of society that
if you can't take jokes,
they make even more of a joke out
of you. Sah,
I can't take jokes now.
Making jokes about his weight or her weight,
that's not funny.
Even then he's saying to me, Allah, I,
you know, I don't mind, you can say
whatever you want. How do you know he
doesn't mind?
Allah, he's probably really suffering inside hurt,
he's going to go into depression when he
goes home,
feel insecure about himself, but he just doesn't
want to make it apparent to you
that
his joke is hurting him.
Even if he doesn't mind, you have been
commanded by Allah as a way not to
make these jokes
and not to ridicule him and make fun
of him. Wallala, Allah told you all who
believe. Are you not somebody who believes?
Hadulai Musa'udu say, right,
whenever you hear,
make sure you listen attentively,
Because you're about to be told of something
extremely important, something that you're going to be
commanded with and that which you're going to
be prohibited from. You know what's even more
worse than that brothers and sisters?
Mocking someone
and how Allah created him.
The way his nose is,
the way his nose is, is he in
control of that?
The way his eyes have been created, the
way his ears are,
making jokes of him saying dwarf ears.
Or he looks like this or he looks
like that. That's how Allah created him.
Why did the messenger say,
don't curse the wind? Who
can
tell
me?
Sorry?
Yeah, honey, it is Allah that created and
sent it.
It's ma'mura, umirat.
Been commanded,
to destroy this and to leave that.
Sometimes it's unbearable, the wind. See trees flying
around.
It's Allah azza wa jal
that sent it. So if you're not insulting
something that doesn't have control over itself, who
in reality are you insulting?
Allah is the widget, right? That's how deep
it is.
That's how profound it is.
Also,
the messenger of Islam told us that to
sub with dhar,
do not insult the time. Let me ask
you guys a question.
The last day
before the 1st January
2022
kicked in, what were the people posting on
social media? What were they saying about the
previous year that has just gone by?
They
were insulting it, they were,
you know,
using profanity,
speaking ill.
The corona that was sent, who sent it?
It was Allah azzawaj that sent it.
You know insulting what the I shouldn't even
say like what the corona caused. It's Allah
Azzawiyah who caused it and he just used
this as a means
to either bring good to people's lives,
or to test them
in many different ways.
Number 6,
last one,
to choose an appropriate time to joke.
Is it appropriate for one to be making
jokes while you're walking towards the funeral?
And I've seen it before.
Someone just passed away, and these guys are
making jokes with one another.
This is not an appropriate time,
Right? You have to choose also a time
to be joking with your parents.
Again, on TikTok,
young says are recording their parents,
making fun of them.
Some even trip up their parents, and they
post on social media because they know they're
gonna get hits. How's that joke?
A parent?
SubhanAllah.