Insulting
14 sayings
If a person slanders a believer to expose his faults to the public, or to insult him, Allah expels him from His Wilayat and leaves him to the Wilayat of Satan.
Greater Sins Vol 1, part 3, page 124; Al Kafi link
The one who insults a believer is as one who is on the verge of ruin.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 8093; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 462 link
If any of you ever insults his fellow brother, he must not insult his family or his father or mother. He can only say - if he knows these flaws for certain - 'You are indeed a miser, or you are indeed a coward, or you are indeed a liar' only if he is certain of the existence of these traits.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 8134; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 464 link
He who hurts people the most here will be hurt the most by God in the Hereafter.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 872; Page No. 123&124 link
From the two of them, the one who initiated it, is more unjust, his sin includes the sin of abusing as well as the sin of the one who had cursed him in reply. But the oppressed one should not exceed the limit
Greater Sins Vol 1, part 3, page 253 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
Careful Qanbar! Leave your insulter to his disdain and you will please the Beneficent Lord, displease Satan and punish thereby your enemy, for by the One who split the grain and created the breeze, there is no stance better than clemency with which a believer can please his Lord, and nothing like silence to offend Satan, and an idiot is best punished by ignoring him.
Amali al-Mufid, p. 118, no. 2; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 463 link
The initiator is the more unjust and bears his own sin as well as the sin of his opponent as long as the latter does not retort.
Tuhaf al-`Uqoul, no. 412; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 463 link
Whenever two people insult each other, the more superior of the two sinks to the level of the more inferior one.
A`alam al-Din, p. 305; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 464 link
Whoever insults any of the prophets, kill him; and he who insults a vicegerent is as one who has insulted a prophet.
Amali al-Tusi, p. 365, no. 769; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 464 link
Im?m Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-S?diq (a.s.) when he was asked about someone who insulted the Prophet (SAWA), replied, 'The most inferior person [in society] must kill him, and if not him, then the second most inferior, and so on until at the last resort he must be killed by the im?m [leader of the congregational prayer].'
al-Kafi, v. 7, p. 259, no. 21; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 464 link
To insult a believer is a gross iniquity, to kill him is infidelity, and to backbite him is an act of disobedience of Allah.
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 75, p. 148, no. 6; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 463 link
Do not insult the winds for verily they are commanded [to blow], nor insult the mountains, nor time, nor the days, nor the nights, lest you transgress thereby and it comes back to you
Ellal al-Shara'ie, p. 577, no. 1; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 463 link
Do not insult people lest you procure animosity from them.
al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 360, no. 3; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 463 link
Insulting a Muslim is wickedness, fighting him is blasphemy, and his wealth is as worthy as his blood.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1062; Page No. 150 link
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