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JOKING TOO MUCH – ‘Uthaymeen

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THE RULING ON JOKING TOO MUCH AMONG FRIENDS – SHAIKH IBN UL-‘UTHAYMEEN

Question: We are a group of youth who pray, fast, and do what we can of acts of worship, Allah praise is due to Allah. However, when we are relaxing afterwards there is a lot of joking between us. So what is the ruling in that? May Allah reward you.

Answer: ”First, we ask Allah, the Exalted to make these brothers firm upon what they do of acts of worship and that He make that worship upon a form that He is pleased with according to the guidance of the Prophet sallahu alayhi wa salam without extremism and short-coming. We say: that you stay firm in the acts of worship you do. As for joking afterwards, then there is no good in too much joking. It is said: joking in terms of speech is like salt in food. Food is not good without salt nor when there is a lot of salt.

Next, some people transgress in joking. So he may mention some profane words against the right of his brothers which is not befitting. Sometimes that leads to what is worse than, such as the mockery of some acts of worship from the religion. This is very, very dangerous. It leads to disbelief and Allah’s refugee is sought. So it is upon them to joke moderately without exaggeration and short-coming”.

[Noor ‘ala Darb no. 617]

Translated by

Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan
Abu Sulaymaan

RAISING ONE’S VOICE TO HIS/HER PARENTS

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RULING ON RAISING ONE’S VOICE TO HIS/HER PARENTS – SHAIKH IBN UL-UTHAYMEEN

Question: While I am working or there comes limited time and my father comes requesting something I did for him and I raise my voice to him. Is this haram?

Answer: “There is no doubt this is caused by anger and shortness of breath. What is necessary for a person is to control himself when angry because :

لأن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم سأله رجل فقال: أوصني، قال: لا تغضب، فردد مراراً قال: لا تغضب

The Prophet sallahu alayhi wa salam was asked by a man: Advise me. He said: Do not be angry. So he repeated the question a number of times and he said: Do not be angry.

So it is necessary for a person to control himself when angry and seek refuge with Allah from Shaytan, the accursed if he/she senses him until he leaves. If she does so, she can control herself from raising her voice to them. It is not allowed for her to raise her voice to them due to Allah’s statement:

إِمَّا يَبْلُغَنَّ عِنْدَكَ الْكِبَرَ أَحَدُهُمَا أَوْ كِلاهُمَا فَلا تَقُلْ لَهُمَا أُفٍّ وَلا تَنْهَرْهُمَا وَقُلْ لَهُمَا قَوْلًا كَرِيمًا

If one of them or both of them attain old age in your life, say not to them a word of disrespect, nor shout at them but address them in terms of honour

[17:23]

From what is known, is that if the parents reach old age they will always occur from them what will restrict a person, embarrass him, and anger him. Along with that, Allah the exalted says:

لا تَقُلْ لَهُمَا أُفٍّ وَلا تَنْهَرْهُمَا وَقُلْ لَهُمَا قَوْلًا كَرِيمً

say not to them a word of disrespect, nor shout at them but address them in terms of honour

[17:23]

So it is obligatory upon her to be courteous with her parents and control herself when angry “.

[Taken from: http://audio.islamweb.net/audio/index.php?page=FullContent&audioid=309211#327052 ]

Translated by

Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan
Abu Sulaymaan

Boarding a bus which contains freemixing…

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Ash-Shaykh Saalih al-Uthaymeen, may Allah have mercy upon him, was asked on the ruling of a person boarding a bus which contains of
free-mixing between men and women?

A: “It is compulsory upon the person to keep far from touching women, I
mean from crowding them, whereas his body becomes connected to her body even if (that were to occur) behind a screen, for indeed this calls to fitnah. The human being is not safe (from everything); he might see himself that he is cautious of this matter and that he will not become affected by it however ash-Shaytaan flows in the blood stream of the son of Adam, so perhaps a (slight) movement from him may corrupt him. So if it is a must for the person to do so (to aboard on a free-mixing bus) while him striving not to become affected then I hope there is no harm in it however my opinion is that it is not
possible to be a must for him to do so, due to it being possible for
him to seek a place where he will not be connected to a woman even if he has to stand (throughout the ride) and by this he frees himself
from this affair that which necessitates fitnah, trail and it is upon the person to fear Allah according to his capability and not to see these affairs to be minor. Likewise as we hope from those who are in charge of these means of transportation; whether it be any means of transportation to make a place specifically for women whereas they are
not connected to the men.”

Reference: Fataawaa Islaamiyyah (3/119).