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and therefore brothers and sisters there's absolutely nothing wrong with being humorous
with being gentle with being joke full but there are conditions what are those conditions very
quickly number one there cannot be blatant lying we are not allowed to lie or to deceive and by
lying what we mean here is to say something that is an intentional lie you invent a fabrication
about ahmed about mustafa about zina and you just say something that is completely untrue and the
person doesn't even realize that oh and then you say oh I was just kidding with you no it doesn't
work that way and by the way as for the jokes that we say the standard jokes there was a man
or there's a rabbi a priest and EEMA that type of stuff it's not quite lying because you know that
it is a fable so that's not covered in the hadith but what we mean is you intentionally lie about
somebody and the other person doesn't realize and then you say oh I was just joking this is
not allowed in our religion as well obviously goes without saying that no joke can have anything that
is Haram inside of it of backbiting of slander of lewdness of vulgarity this is not of the fluff of
our religion so we cannot have anything and goes without saying that nothing that is humorous can
have something intrinsically Haram in it as well if the joke involves a prank or something
of this nature then it is not allowed to bring about terror upon a person you cannot terrify
a person our Prophet SAW said I'm said in hadith asana without it is not allowed for a believer to
bring fear into the heart of another believer so even as a joke or as a prank you cannot do
something that will terrify the person that is not something that is a part of our religion and as
well of the conditions that our scholars mentioned that look at all of the incidents I said to you of
the hadith of the Prophet system every one of them the end result was the person felt closer
to rasul allah so salam the person felt better camaraderie the person felt genuine who wa the
person was cheered up so if the joke offends if the joke makes the person feel bad if you have den
agree the person then no this isn't funny and it is not something the Sharia allows jokes and humor
should cheer people up bring happiness to them not make them feel bad so once you've insulted
somebody don't say oh it was only a joke if the person feels insulted you are at fault not the
other person and if and at times it is possible that you say something and you intended as a
positive joke but the person you overestimated you made a mistake and the person is offended in this
situation Islamically it's your fault you have to apologize and don't say Oh take a joke brother
no you're the one who went beyond the bounds that sent something that was a gray area and the other
person was offended so it is your responsibility to clear up that misunderstanding and of the
etiquettes as well of being humorous and joking is that it is done in the appropriate manner at the
right time in place to go to extremes to go too much is something that obviously goes against the
etiquettes of Islam our professor law seldom said I warn you against excessive laughing laughing too
much because and he didn't say I warned you guys laughing our process of left excessive laughing
all the time joking laughing all the time because we have something serious to just the worship of
Allah jokes as the scholars say and this is an Arabic tradition and in an Arabic phrase and an
English phrase jokes are like salt to one's food this is an Arabic and in English jokes are like
salt to one's food you add it to the right amount perfect and this is the Sunnah of the
Prophet Allah seldom humor has its place when you go beyond the bounds then you lose the respect of
the people and your status is demeaned and you will be end up offending people so the process
some sent I warn you against excessive laughing for excessive laughing makes the heart hard and
the final condition and the final condition is that and the most important really is that the
joke not involve anything that is denigrating to Allah and His Messenger to the religion of
Islam it is not just how long it is kufur to joke about allah and his messenger it's not just a sin
it is good for because a heart that understands who Allah and who is Rasul Allah so solemn can
never then be sarcastic against them we in our tradition in our religion there is no such thing
as cracking humor against Allah making fun of the messenger siloam this is not Islam this can
only come from a heart that doesn't understand what it means to be sacred what it means to be
said to have sanctity we do not joke about our mother we do not joke about the kindness or the
allow for the purity of our mother wallahi Allah and His Messenger deserve infinitely
more respect and love than our parents do there are things we do not joke about and of them are
that which is of the Shia of the main points of this religion may Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
was all to follow in the beautiful footsteps in the genuine humor in the simple and it and the
beautiful jokes of the Prophet saws in him and enjoyed his company and his humor in the after