The Curses of Allah Cause Disgrace
Here and in the Hereafter
The Qur’anic word, la’nah means
being far removed from the mercy of Allah, extremely debased and disgraced.
Anyone under la’nah from Allah cannot be close to Him. For such accursed
ones admonitions are very stern. This is their disgrace in the present life –
the disgrace in the akhirah will be far too grim to contemplate.
Who Deserves the La’nah of Allah?
Ayah 52 states that anyone under the
curse of Allah has no helper to help him in that predicament. The point to
ponder is: Who are these people who become deserving of this la’nah from
Allah?
According to a hadith, the Prophet
sallAllahu aalyhi wa sallam has cursed the giver of interest, the receiver and
the consumer of interest, and its writer and the one who bears witness to it,
the whole lot of them, all of them equally involved in the sin. [Narrated by
Muslim as in Mishkat]
There is another hadith in which he
said,
“Cursed is he who does
what the people of Lut aalyhi sallam used to do.”
Narrated by Razin and appearing in
Mishkat, the reference is to the male homosexual.
Then, he said, Allah sends his curse
on the thief who would not stop from stealing even very small things like eggs
and in another hadith, he said,
“Allah curses the eater
of interest, and its feeder, and the woman who tattoes another woman and the
woman who tattooes herself, and the picture-maker.” [Bukhari, from Mishkat]
In yet another hadith, he has said,
“Allah sends His curse on
liquor, its consumer and its server, its seller and purchaser, its squeezers,
its handlers, transporters and orderers, on all of them.”[Abu Dawood,
ibn Majah, from Mishkat]
In still another hadith, the Prophet
sallAllahu aalyhi wa sallam has said, “There are six types of people I have
cursed and Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala has also cursed them – and every Prophet
is blessed with the acceptance of his prayers – those six are:
1. One who commits excess in the
matter of Allah’s Book;
2. and one who rises to power by
force and terror, then honors a person disgraced by Allah and brings disgrace
on a person honored by Allah;
3. the denier of destiny determined
by Allah;
4. one who takes as lawful what has
been made unlawful by Allah;
5. the person in my progency who
rules what has been forbidden as lawful;
6. disobedience and the one who gives up way
(sunnah).’ [Baihaqi in al-Mudkhal from Mishkat]
In another hadith he said,
“Allah curses the ogler and the ogled at”. It means that the curse of
Allah falls on anyone who looks at someone in an evil way, someone who is a
non-Mahram, (ZINA) that is, someone outside the count of those in the family he is
permitted to see because marriage with them is forbidden forever. This is why
such a nazir, the onlooker of the other, comes under the curse of Allah.
As for the manzur ilaihi, the one who is looked at lustfully, the same
curse will apply subject to his or her having deliberately and invitingly
caused such a look to be cast.
Abu Hurairah
radhiAllahu anhu narrates:
“Rasoolullah sallAllahu
aalyhi wa sallam has cursed the man who dresses like a woman and the woman who
dresses like a man.” [Mishkat]
The following report from Abu Dawood
appears in Mishkat: “Someone told Aishah radhiAllahu anha about a woman who
wore (men’s shoes). Aishah said,
“The Messenger of Allah
sallAllahu aalyhi wa sallam has cursed the woman who takes to masculine ways.”
A narration from Ibn Abbas
radhiAllahu anhu reports: The Prophet sallAllahu aalyhi wa sallam has cursed
the effeminate from among men (who, in dress and looks, emulated women like
transvestites) and he has cursed the masculinized from among women (who,
in dress Looks and ways, act man-like). And he said, “Expel them out of your homes.” [Bukhari from
Mishkat]
Also from al-Bukhari comes the
report that Abdullah ibn Mas’ud radhiAllahu anhu said,
“The curse of Allah be on
the tattooers and the tattooed, on the pickers of eyebrows and the cleavers of
teeth as aids to beauty – they are the makers of alteration in the creation of
Allah.”
Some examples of Curses: (Mulka or Sumpa)
Some examples of Curses: (Mulka or Sumpa)
- Cannot find job
- Cant get marry/broken family
- Having or Feeling sick and having sickness in the family or oneself
- Members of the family and relatives suffer..
- Calamities in the community ( Natural and man made) Earthquake, fire,storm,flood,war and many more....
- No peace of mine/Accident and unknown sources of problem..
- Poverty and sufferings
Rules about La’nah
La’nah is the denouncing of something or the calling down of evil
on someone. Curse is the most widely used equivalent for it. Two formal
substitutes for ‘curse’ in this sense are ‘execration’ and ‘imprecation’.
Execration is the face-to-face denunciation or the ill-wished, while
imprecation is somewhat privately expressed. Call it by whatever name, the act
of invoking la’nah is a terrible thing to do. Because of the amount of
evil it releases, corresponding heavy restrictions have been placed against its
use. Invoking la’nah against a Muslim is haram and the sole
condition when this can be done against a kafir is that the imprecator
must be sure that the disbeliever will die clinging to his disbelief. Given
below are some authentic sayings of the Prophet sallAllahu aalyhi wa sallam on
this subject:
“According
to Ibn Mas’ud radhiAllahu anhu, the Prophet sallAllahu aalyhi wa sallam said,
“A true Muslim is no
taunter or imprecator, nor is he foul-mouthed.”
[Tirmidhi, from Mishkat]
Abu al-Darda radhiAllahu anhu says
that he heard the Prophet sallAllahu aalyhi wa sallam say,
“When a servant of Allah
curses something, the curse goes up towards the sky whereupon the doors of the
sky are closed on it. After that, it comes down towards the earth whereupon the
doors of the earth are closed on it (that is, the earth does not accept this
curse). After that, it takes a right, and then a left, but as it finds no
access anywhere, it returns to the one who was cursed. So, if he is really
deserving of it, on him it falls; otherwise, it returns back to its pronouncer
and falls on him.” [Abu Dawood, cited by Mishkat]
It has been reported by Ibn Abbas
radhiAllahu anhu that the wind swooped away the sheet-cloak of a man and he
cursed the wind, whereupon the Prophet sallAllahu aalyhi wa sallam said, “Do
not curse it for it is under orders (from Allah) and (remember) whosoever
curses something which does not deserve the curse, then, the curse returns to
none but him.” [Tirmidhi, cited by Mishkar, p.413]
Rulings:
Unless it is known about a
particular person that he died in a state of kufr invoking la’nah on
him is not permissible – even though he may be a sinful person. Based on this
principle, ibn Abideen has advised against cursing Yazeed. But, should it be on
a particular kafir whose death in a state of disbelief is certain for
instance, Abu Jahl
and Abu Lahab, then, it is
permissible. [Shami, v.2, p.836]
Cursing without naming anyone is
permissible, for example, saying, “God’s curse upon liar (or tyrants)!’
Literally, la’nah means being far
removed from the mercy of Allah. In
the terminology of the Shariah, when applied to disbelievers, it refers to
their being far off from the mercy of Allah; and when it is applied to Muslims,
it refers to their having fallen down the level of the righteous [reported by
Shami from al-Quhistani, v.2, p.836]. therefore, praying that the good deeds of
a Muslim may decrease is also not permissible.
[Taken from Maaruf-ul-Qur’an by Mufti Muhammad Shafi Usmani]
Referrence:https://versebyversequranstudycircle.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/the-lanah-curse-of-allah/
