# Is cyberbullying and attacking someone's honour haram in Islam? *Conclusion: a Muslim's honour outweighs the Kaaba, and bullying is haram* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/s/13/ - Date: 2017-09-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Propaganda against Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan - Mufti Abu Layth (40:31–46:47) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_dmOJl-_bI&t=2431s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/ **Topics:** Speech and everyday conduct; Character and virtue; Individual hadith explained **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Harming the honour of a Muslim is graver than destroying the Kaaba, Mufti Abu Layth says citing a hadith, and bullying, cyberbullying and maligning people are haram. A crime goes to the authorities; a haram act is for God alone to judge. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth holds that harming the honour of a Muslim is graver than destroying the Kaaba, as the hadith he cites says, and that bullying, cyberbullying and maligning people's character are haram. **Evidence, his words at 45:43:** “recognize that bullying is haram cyberbullying is haram maligning people's character is haram destroying the honor of other muslims is haram stay away from all of this” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_dmOJl-_bI&t=2743s) ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth says he wants to conclude with one hadith, adding that he knows Nouman Ali Khan in some personal capacity and considers him genuinely one of the good guys, and that the matter raised is not blameworthy, is certainly not abuse, cannot be verified by people who have no authority to verify it, and is none of their business. Against those who point to flirting, he relates the report in Sahih Muslim in which al-Fadl ibn Abbas, riding with the Prophet, kept staring at a woman who came to the Prophet, who simply turned his face away and, when asked, said he did it out of care for him; this, he says, is the Prophet's etiquette, whereas these people take people's honour lightly. He asks how listeners would feel if the Kaaba were blown to smithereens with nobody hurt, says their blood would boil because the Quran counts glorifying Allah's symbols as taqwa of the heart, citing a verse he identifies as being about honouring the symbols of Allah [?], and relates the Prophet's saying that destroying and rebuilding the Kaaba repeatedly is not as grave as harming the honour of a Muslim. Quoting an Urdu couplet, he says what hurts is the impunity with which this is done in God's name, which makes people hate religion, as the Prophet warned. He closes by saying that bullying, cyberbullying, maligning character and destroying the honour of Muslims are haram, that people will regret taking part in this life or the next, that the same applies to the actress, and that the rule is simple: a crime goes to the authorities and a haram act is for God alone to judge. ## Sources and names cited - Nouman Ali Khan - al-Fadl ibn Abbas - Sahih Muslim - report: al-fadl ibn abbas kept looking at a woman and the prophet turned his face away - report: if you destroyed the kaaba and rebuilt it and destroyed it that is not as great as harming the honour of a muslim - Quran 22:32 [?] (reference uncertain; possibly https://quran.com/22/32) - taqwa - Mahira Khan ## Transcript (machine tier, 40:31–46:47) [39:59] propaganda about me in years to come in the years that followed they almost lost their faith because they saw that the faith clashed with reason they saw that these arguments were compelling of atheists and then who was it that they turn back to they came to me to answer their questions why not go now to those kind of hardline people that you were supporting before and and doing all that because they don't give you the answers and this isn't I'm just giving you and I'm just saying this is a personal example but it's the same thing tomorrow [40:37] your own generation will want the Koran to be relevant who will you go to so let's just take a step back I want to conclude this matter with one hadith of The Messenger of Allah right the messenger of allah saw Allison and I say these people because genuinely honestly as somebody who can be very detached from emotions I have been hurt to watch this I have known the staff in some personal capacity and I can [41:15] genuinely tell you you see about myself I would never say I'm a pious person or a good person or but he genuinely is from one of the good guys like the guy is a decent guy and to kind of bring our nonsense which first of all isn't even I mean it's not even blameworthy it's not even it's definitely not abuse and we can't even verify whether it's his and we're not even in an authority to verify it but it's none of our business but to kind of try to ashame him a shame him right but by trying to say look at these these flirts and things like this [41:53] right look at the look at this look at this that I tell you that the the prophets nephew was sitting with him for the Lipner a bus on the camel in Sahih Muslim and he's looking at the woman that comes to the Profi and he says inside Muslims some masa add another he looked at it like this and he looked at it like that and she and he found her beautiful and he kept staring at her and the messenger of allah moved his face and and and he looks back and he stares at her and he says the Mossad another he's going like this sent that and The [42:32] Messenger of Allah just moves his face and he says to the Prophet he says the autosum what did I do something wrong and the Prophet said no I just did that out of care to protect you from from something that is the etiquette of the messenger of allah these people have taken the the kind of honour of people so lightly i tell you that i want to conclude on a hadith how would you feel [43:06] if somebody destroyed the kaaba how would you feel tell me if today there was an attack let's say a bomb went off people weren't killed let's say people weren't killed a bomb went off but the kaaba was destroyed let's just envisage that for a moment right let's envisage that people ain't hurt but the kaaba is destroyed blown to smithereens it's absolutely wrong would you not be totally inferior would would it not would your blood not boil [43:45] would it not harm you would it not hurt you would you not be offended you would because this is meant to Athena Shire Allah and Allah says for me your atom sure I don't laughing now I'm in Tukwila loop those of you who who glorify his his symbols on earth this is from the taqwa in your hearts get the messenger of allah said that if you destroyed this Kappa and built and destroyed and then built and destroyed and then built and then destroyed it [44:24] he said wallahi that is not as great as harming the honor of a Muslim Arab or Muslim that is not as great as harming the honor of a Muslim you know llahi visa this is why I say you know this suppose there's a poem who what of kuch bhi nahi sahib buzzer ah ha maan to die you know that this is the that it's not much that is actually happening it's just that the heart has been hurt that the kind of impunity that these people did this with [45:03] and they continue to do in the name of God they use God as an excuse the tyranny that has been unleashed in the name of God it is this is what makes you a poor religion it makes you hate religion and this is the problem this is why The Messenger of Allah always warned people about this because it makes drives people away from religion anyway people goddamn God let's take some of your questions you know it's just my [45:43] advice is look recognize that bullying is haram cyberbullying is haram maligning people's character is haram destroying the honor of other muslims is haram stay away from all of this do not be a part of this I tell you you will regret that in time to come in this life or in the era but that will be something that you will regret so stay away from all of that do not try to justify Islamically this is got very little to do with Islam right that's enough now on [46:22] and the same applied with a lot of what was going on with that actress the same thing Allah has not put us here as judge jury and executioner the rule is always very simple if it is if it is a crime the authorities if it is Haram then not you the real God will do ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 6_dmOJl-_bI/s/13. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6_dmojl-_bi/s/13/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. Ask a qualified scholar about your own situation.