You are more than anything to me! When some crook minds tried to tarnish your esteemed image I was unable to stop myself from giving any reply to the offender. I said to myself ' this is the beginning of the end'. Yes, Iam sure Allah will never allow anyone to smear your honor, rather He will soon increase your fame in whole universe. You are the respected one in the earth and sky, whole world glorify you and say: Oh blessed habeeb! we live for you.. we die for you!

MORE HATRED IN THE HEART!

Recent controversy over film is the latest episode of enemy's attempt to destabilize Islam by cheap means. Quran said what appears from their mouth is little, but their minds carry more abhorrence and hatred against Islam.

1قذ بذت البغضاء من أفىاههم وما تخفي صذورهم أمبر

Hatred has already appeared from their mouths, but what their breasts conceal is greater (Al-Imran: verse 118)

LONG HISTORY OF HATRED

Enemies of the light always tried to ridicule our beloved Prophet (S.A) from the very beginning of his mission. Quran obviously stated that enemy

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Quran : Chapter Al Imran 3812:

won't be satisfied with Prophet of Islam until Prophet leaves Islam and follows enemy's religion.

2تتبع ملتهمولن ترض عنل اليهىد ولا النصاري حت

And never will the Jews or the Christians approve of you until you follow their religion (Al Baqara:120)

PUNISHMENT FOR HATRED

But Allah has guaranteed to avenge the prophet's mocker with strict punishments. Allah says

3إنا مفيناك المستهزئني

Indeed, We are sufficient for you against the mockers

one of the commentary of this verse says: This is the promise from Allah to the prophet (S.A.S) that the mockers can't make any harm to him and Allah will protect him from all kind of evils by giving them different kind of punishment. In fact, no anyone tried to defame prophet (S.A.S) in public unless Allah has destroyed him with sever kind of killing.

2 8Quran : Chapter Al Baqara 28120 .

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4 الليث احلرب يثأرإني ألثار ألوليائي مما

"I will take revenge for my allies as the revenge of a ferocious fighting lion."

5من عادي يل وليا فقذ آرنته باحلرب

"Whoever bears enmity towards an ally of mine has entered into warfare with Me."

Following incident says how Allah dealt with one of the mocker of the prophet at the time of his life:

Bukhari reports:

There was a Christian who embraced Islam and read Surat-al-Baqara and Al-`Imran, and he used to write (the revelations) for the Prophet. Later on he returned to Christianity again and he used to say: "Muhammad knows nothing but what I have written for him." Then Allah caused him to die, and the people buried him, but in the morning they saw that the earth had thrown his body out. They said, "This is the act of Muhammad and his companions. They dug the grave of our companion and took his body out of it

4 See ibn kateer in the tafseer and alfurqan baina awliya

shaitan by ibn taimiyya 5 Bukhari

because he had run away from them." They again dug the grave deeply for him, but in the morning they again saw that the earth had thrown his body out. They said, "This is an act of Muhammad and his companions. They dug the grave of our companion and threw his body outside it, for he had run away from them." They dug the grave for him as deep as they could, but in the morning they again saw that the earth had thrown his body out. So they believed that what had befallen him was not done by human beings and had to leave him thrown (on the ground).6

See how Allah punished this mocker? Did you ever read about Allah punished anyone with such a disgraceful way? There were some people who were attributing son to Allah which is the biggest blasphemy and most horrible sin, but we didn't read that Allah punished them with such a shocking way!. Insulting the prophet is greater than just apostasy.

PROPHET MORE RESPECTED

The status of the Holy Prophet (S.A.S) is higher and higher than any one can imagine. His status is above all. Nothing can win over him. Any attempt to insult only result in destruction of the insulter. The mockery can't gain anything, rather it will lead people more to remember the honor of the

6 Sahih Bukhari Book: 61, Hadith: 3660

beloved prophet (S.A.S). Previous experience says the more prophet became the topic of the discussion, the more people embrace Islam, exactly as we saw aftermath of Denmark cartoon issue.

To protest against such mockery is one of the fundamental duty of a Muslim, it is esteemed responsibility too, but the protest should be each according to his limit. Because honoring the prophet is a very basic duty of a believer, otherwise there is no use of being in the fold of Islam. Everyone should maximize the protest by all means. If one couldn't protest with pen and tongue, he can at least reject and protest by his heart. One should evaluate and renew his belief(iman) if he doesn't feel any harm when he hears the news of defaming the Prophet of Islam. Anyhow, the protest should not go beyond limit; destruction of public asset never allowed in Islam, killing or harming the innocent not justified in Islam under any circumstances.

PUNISHMENT FOR THE MOCKERY

Qadi Iyad said: Anyone who insulted the prophet or blamed him or accused him of any flaw ,shortcoming in his personality, his lineage or his character should be considered as the slander of

Prophet and his punishment is to be killed7, he will not be asked to do tawbah8

Sure, only an Islamic court in a full Islamic country can execute this punishment, such an Islamic state currently not available. But the point is the severity of punishment that Isalm announced against those slanders of the prophet (S.A.S).

In the hadith of Abu Barza as-Aslami it

says, "One day I was sitting with Abu Bakr as-Siddiq and he became angry at one of the Muslim men." Qadi Isma'il and other Imams said that the man had cursed Abu Bakr. An-Nasa'i related it as, "I came to Abu Bakr and a man had been rude and answered him back. I said, 'Khalif of Allah, let me strike off his head!' He said, 'Sit down. That is not for anyone except the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.'

Qadi Abu Muhammad ibn Nasr said, "No one disagreed with him." So the Imams take this, as a proof that anyone who does anything that might anger, harm or curse the Prophet in any way should be killed. 9

There is also the letter of 'Umar ibn

'Abdu'l-'Aziz to his governor in Kufa. He

had asked his advice about killing a man

7 Shifa by Qadi Iyad 473/2-

8 See Talqeed by Abdul Wahab 2/506

9 See shifa of qadi iyad

who had cursed 'Umar. 'Umar wrote back

to him, "It is not lawful to kill a Muslim for cursing anyone except the Messenger of Allah. Whoever curses him, his blood is lawful."10

Harun ar-Rashid asked Malik about a man who had reviled the Prophet and he mentioned to him that the fuqaha' of Iraq had given a fatwa that he be flogged. Malik became angry and said, "Amir al-Mu'minin! There is no continuation for a community after it curses its Prophet! Whoever curses the Companions of the Prophet is to be flogged." 11

That he is to be killed can be deduced by reflection and consideration. Anyone who curses or disparages the Prophet has shown clear symptoms of the sickness of his heart and proof of his real convictions and belief. That is why most of the 'ulama' judge him to be an apostate. This is what is transmitted by the people of Syria from Malik, al-Awza'i, ath-Thawri, Abu Hanifa and the people of Kufa.

Because upholding the Prophet's honour is an obligation owed by his entire community and anyone who curses a free man of his community is given a hadd-punishment, the

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See shifa of qadi iyad 11

See shifa of qadi iyad

punishment of someone who curses the Prophet is that he is to be is killed because of the immensity of the worth of the Prophet and his elevation over others.12 There are some other instances as well where Allah warned with hardest shameful punishment to those who do harm to His beloved prophet (S.A.S).

WHO IS PROPHET IN THE EYE OF BELIEVERS?

He is

1. seal of the prophets 2. the foremost among the sons of Adam 3. the leader of mankind 4. the imam of whole prophet 5. mediator between the creature and

creator on the day of judgment 6. the owner of the one of the praiseworthy

position (Al-Maqaam al-mahmood) 7. the bearer of the flag of praise (Al-hamd), 8. the possessor of al howdh al kawthar(the

pond to which believers will flock) 9. the owner of Al-waseela and Al-fadheela, 10. receiver of the best book available in the

universe 11. Leader of the best nation 12. all qualities of dignity and goodness of

previous nations given to his nation. 13. His nation is the last one in creation, but

the first one to enter the paradise. "I will

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See shifa of qadi iyad

come to the door of paradise and seek entry. The guard will say: "Who are you?" When I say that I am Muhammahe will say: "You are the one for whom I was ordered to open to no one before you."

HOW TO RESPOND?

Insulting prophet (S.A.S) is a biggest sin a person can do in his life. As a Muslim, one can't sit back and watch his highest leader being targeted. His inner belief should remind him of any reaction, otherwise he should be suspicious of his own iman!. Reaction could be a strong condemnation of the mocker, taking pen or mobile to show his strong disapproval , tweeting or posting in Facebook or even reciting one more 'salat' in honor of his beloved prophet(S.A.S)!.

We all condemned America when it announced war against Afghan and killed thousands of innocents; why? because America punished the innocents. If America had found the real perpetrator and taken him to the fair judgment and he had proven guilty in the court, we couldn't have put blame on America. The same applies here; the slander of the Prophet committed a big mistake, but it is not a justification to kill his nation's Ambassador in Libya, especially when Islam gives due respect to the diplomatic way and considers that harming an envoy is not excused in any circumstance.

It is essential of iman to have great respect and honor to the our beloved Prophet(S.A.S) to the extent that one has to be ready to sacrifice his life on behalf of Prophet(S.A.S). For a believer, the prophet (S.A.S) meant more than his own life and he maintains much respect and love towards him. Out of this love, an automatic reaction arises whenever he hears something harm to the Prophet(S.A.S). The best way to show such reaction is to prove to the world that we are all set to live on behalf of the prophet (S.A.S) spreading his teachings and traditions to some more people around the world, inviting them to fair study about the Prophet (S.A.S) and refuting any claims against Prophet (S.A.S). Shouting and proclaiming that 'I love Mohammad(S.A.S)' is a good job that inspire the unconscious mind to act, but we can't sit back and take rest after it.