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Jan 06, 2011
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Egyptian Cleric Tells Quaint Ass Stories to Ward Off Non-Conformity with the Hadith (Archival)

#5473 | 03:42
Source: Online Platforms

Egyptian cleric Mus'id Anwar told a Kuwaiti audience several bizarre stories about the fate of Muslims who mocked prophetic hadiths. Sheikh Anwar, a TV host on the Islamist Al-Rahma TV, delivered the lecture in Kuwait on January 6, 2011. The lecture, titled "punishment for violations," was initially posted online by the BoFawzi blog, an Islamic online outlet run by "Abu Fawzi Al-Kuwaiti," and excerpts from it have recently resurfaced and circulated on social media.


Following are excerpts


Sheikh Mus'id Anwar: Mocking the Prophet Muhammad is heresy, my brothers. Cursing the Prophet Muhammad is heresy! Fear Allah, oh servants of Allah. Beware not to mock a Muslim for adhering to an (Islamic) practice. Why mock me for my beard? This is the Prophet's way. The Prophet's words don't please you? Why do you despise a woman for wearing a niqab? This is our Lord's religion. You are in great danger, oh servant of Allah.


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Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Isma'il ibn Muhammad ibn Fadl Al-Taymi wrote, in his book Exegesis on the Hadith Compilation by Muslim that he read some accounts about a heretic who heard the Prophet say: "When you wake up from your sleep, wash your hands before dipping them into the ablution vessel, because you do not know where they have been during the night." This is an authentic hadith from the Muslim hadith compilation. If you are used to dipping your hand in the ablution vessel when you wake up - wash it first. Any Muslim who hears this would say that Islam is a religion of cleanliness. But a fool who heard this said in derision: I don't know where my hand has been at night?! What nonsense! The next day when he woke up, his arm was up his ass all the way to the elbow...


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I would like to end my lecture with a very strange incident. Very strange.


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Ibn Khilliqan said: We heard from a trustworthy group of people, who reached Damascus from the city of Busra, that in the village of Dayr abu Salama, there was a Bedouin who used to mock Islam all the time. One day, he heard a lecture about the sewak tooth-cleaning twig. The sheikh dedicated the entire Friday sermon to the sewak.So the Bedouin said: Sewak?! I only use it in my ass. What a depraved man! Depraved! Indeed, he inserted the sewak into his ass, and it caused him pain during the night. Nine months went by, and he started to complain about sharp pains in his stomach and his anus. Then he suffered from labor pains, and he gave birth to an animal that looked like a rat or a mouse. The animal let out three squeals, until the man's daughter hit it on its head and it died. I mean the rat. The man survived only two days. On his deathbed he said: This thing ripped up my bowels. Ibn Kathir added that a group of people, including the local preacher, saw the animal. This is a peculiar story indeed, but I have mentioned the sources from which I quoted.


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