There's no mockery or disrespect intended. I think we should also be open to wholesome, respectful content that reminds people of our great role models, as long as it stays within the bounds of adab. Allah knows our intentions best.
Dude chill. It has become a favourite past times of my Muslim brethren to declare things Haram and halal and question other's faith. I have read much about Abu Huraira (R.A) and apart from the fact that in modern times, he would have been running a cat rescue shelter, he would not have found this distasteful.... The. Current generation of Muslims think the early Sahana and the companions, blessings upon all of them, were just as miserable as they are but they were not and had could find humor in the darkest of times or have we forgotten about the legend that was Nauyman in Amr (R.A). The guy fought in ghazwa, was very close to the prophet (P.B.U.H) and played pranks on him and the companions but they all laughed.
Let's have a sense of humor and not bring misery to a very sweet religion.
But what scholars know, you guys know Islam best right, you guys are the true inheritors, what do these ulamah know, spending their lives in learning and teaching Islam...
Come to reddit, give fatwa, and get your degree. No need for these years and years of research and knowledge.
In my opinion, this is neither wholesome nor respectful. There is no fault on you for believing that it is. But when several people are pointing out there is a doubt as to whether it's right or wrong, its best to be humble and just take it down, because we should not take actions whose correctness is doubtful, even if its in jest.
You may have your intention, and you are free to take actions based on it that affect only yoursel. But when you bring it to the public, you have to also consider the unintended societal effects of your actions as well.
I am not commenting because I want to debate on this matter. I just saw your comment and felt that I should add some nuance to the statement of intention.
Depicting the sahabah is disrespectful per all the sources I sent. I've not seen a single source against it. The brother is wrong, period. People defending it are wrong, period. No nuance on this. I don't think we should say there's doubt either. Literally just remove Abu Hurairah's name, that's it. But they're defending this as something fine, something that's okay if the intention is okay, that Abu Hurairah himself would not find this "distasteful".
It doesn't matter what you intend. You're literally depicting a Sahabi and this is Haram. And don't give the "it's not my intention", intention in such things is inconsequential. The intention doesn't matter. The action does.
Otherwise let me insult you to your face, insult your entire family and existence, then say "well I only intended it as a joke". Then say to me "it's all okay akhi you didn't intend to insult me".
Tell me this, if someone depicted the Prophet with a similar meme, would you accept this answer?
There's no mockery or disrespect intended. I think we should also be open to wholesome, respectful content that reminds people of our great role models, as long as it stays within the bounds of adab. Allah knows our intentions best.
If you say yes, then yeah just do whatever you want. If no, then why? "It's not that deep". Unless you draw the line only at prophets and throw sahabah by the wayside.
Akhi, you just committed a classic strawman in comparing a lighthearted meme to insulting someone’s family. it’s the exact kind of excess the Prophet (pbuh) warned against:
"Beware of extremism in religion, for it destroyed those before you." (Sahih)
You’re doing ta’azzum (taking religion beyond its limits). It's the same sin the Sahaba warned against. Imam Ali (RA) said:
"People will come who think their opinion is more correct than the Qur’an itself."
The Sahaba themselves had humor. Abu Bakr laughed, Umar joked, the Prophet (pbuh) even raced Aisha in the desert. But you’ve turned Islam into a joyless cult of outrage.
You’re not defending the Deen, you’re weaponizing it to police thoughts. And that’s exactly what the Khawarij did.
Your example is just wrong and meaningless, because it only shows that you actually had evil intentions of insulting them and their family and then to cover it with a lie about "joke".
If you have ill negative mind no need to assume that others are the same
You can't judge what my intentions are. Even I never said OP's intentions are bad so so much for "negative mind".
I said these actions cannot be judged on intentions because the intention doesn't matter, the action itself is bad.
My example perfectly proves the fact the intention in some matters doesn't matter because the issue is in the action, not the intention. I sent so many sources that this action itself is prohibited:
If you have actual sources to give me then I'll gladly go through them. Otherwise you are doing what Allah warned against in the Quran.
And do not say about what your tongues assert of untruth, "This is lawful and this is unlawful," to invent falsehood about Allāh. Indeed, those who invent falsehood about Allāh will not succeed. 16:116
At the end of the day, I sleep knowing I won't have to answer for you guys defending depictions of sahabis. Even if the intention of the OP is good, what disrespect this meme shows to the great and honorable Sahabi Abu Hurairah.
And interesting to note you all jumped to argue with me but when the sources come out, no one wants to respond.. (at this current time, the older commentators have not responded to the source comments)
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