Allah prohibits His Messenger and the believers from insulting the false deities
of the idolators, although there is a clear benefit in doing so. Insulting their
deities will lead to a bigger evil than its benefit, for the idolators might retaliate
by insulting the God of the believers, Allah, none has the right to be worshipped
but He. `Ali bin Abi Talhah said that Ibn `Abbas commented on this Ayah ﴿6:108﴾;
"They (disbelievers) said, `O Muhammad! You will stop insulting our gods, or we
will insult your Lord.' Thereafter, Allah prohibited the believers from insulting
the disbelievers' idols,
﴿فَيَسُبُّواْ اللَّهَ عَدْواً بِغَيْرِ
عِلْمٍ﴾
(lest they insult Allah wrongfully without knowledge.)'' `Abdur-Razzaq narrated
that Ma`mar said that Qatadah said, "Muslims used to insult the idols of the disbelievers
and the disbelievers would retaliate by insulting Allah wrongfully without knowledge.
Allah revealed,
﴿وَلاَ تَسُبُّواْ الَّذِينَ يَدْعُونَ
مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ﴾
(And insult not those whom they worship besides Allah.)'' On this same subject --
abandoning what carries benefit to avert a greater evil - it is recorded in the
Sahih that the Messenger of Allah said,
«مَلْعُونٌ مَنْ سَبَّ وَالِدَيْه»
(Cursed is he who insults his own parents!) They said, "O Allah's Messenger! And
how would a man insult his own parents'' He said,
«يَسُبُّ أَبَا الرَّجُلِ فَيَسُبُّ
أَبَاهُ وَيَسُبُّ أُمَّهُ فَيَسُبُّ أُمَّه»
(He insults a man's father, and that man insults his father, and insults his mother
and that man insults his mother.) Allah's statement,
﴿كَذَلِكَ زَيَّنَّا لِكُلِّ أُمَّةٍ
عَمَلَهُمْ﴾
(Thus We have made fair seeming to each people its own doings;) means, as We made
fair seeming to the idolators loving their idols and defending them, likewise We
made fair seeming to every previous nation the misguidance they indulged in. Allah's
is the most perfect proof, and the most complete wisdom in all that He wills and
chooses.
﴿ثُمَّ إِلَى رَبِّهِمْ مَّرْجِعُهُمْ﴾
(then to their Lord is their return,) gathering and final destination,
﴿فَيُنَبِّئُهُمْ بِمَا كَانُواْ يَعْمَلُونَ﴾
(and He shall then inform them of all that they used to do.) He will compensate
them for their deeds, good for good and evil for evil.
﴿وَأَقْسَمُواْ بِاللَّهِ
جَهْدَ أَيْمَـنِهِمْ لَئِن جَآءَتْهُمْ ءَايَةٌ لَّيُؤْمِنُنَّ بِهَا قُلْ إِنَّمَا
الاٌّيَـتُ عِندَ اللَّهِ وَمَا يُشْعِرُكُمْ أَنَّهَآ إِذَا جَآءَتْ لاَ يُؤْمِنُونَ
- وَنُقَلِّبُ أَفْئِدَتَهُمْ وَأَبْصَـرَهُمْ كَمَا لَمْ يُؤْمِنُواْ بِهِ أَوَّلَ
مَرَّةٍ وَنَذَرُهُمْ فِى طُغْيَانِهِمْ يَعْمَهُونَ ﴾
(109. And they swear their strongest oaths by Allah, that if there came to them
a sign, they would surely believe therein. Say: "Signs are but with Allah and what
will make you perceive that (even) if it came, they will not believe'') (110. And
We shall turn their hearts and their eyes away, as they refused to believe therein
for the first time, and We shall leave them in their trespass to wander blindly.)
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