Mockery is Tantamount to Ignorance Almost every Muslim knows the story of the Cow (Sūratl-Baqarah). After all, the longest chapter of the Quran is named after this story. To get to the gist, there was an unsolved murder that happened among the Children of Israel during the time of Moses [as] (Mūsa). So Allah revealed to Moses that in order to solve the murder your people have to slaughter a cow. Of course, when Moses told his people of Gods command, their first reaction was shock and disbelief (e.g. whats slaughtering a cow got to do with solving a murder?). The Quran says: “Remember when Moses said to his people, God commands you to sacrifice a cow, they said, are you making fun of us? He answered, God forbid that I should be so ignorant” [2:67] So initially, the Children of Israel thought that Moses was mocking them. But Moses quickly corrected that mockery could never come from a Prophet and he distanced himself from such an act by the expression familiar to Muslims “I seek refuge in God from”. But what we usually miss from this verse is the fact that Moses equated mockery to ignorance. So a learned man (or woman) should never mock anyone or anything under any circumstance. So the next question becomes, how do we deal with ignorance or ignorant people?
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 13:45:17 +0000
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