In answer to the video "MUHAMMAD POISONS EVERYTHING (DAVID WOOD)"
Before getting to what this youtuber is trying to distort in vain, i want to explain a fascinating aspect of the day of judgement, as depicted in the Quran. Some people spend their time mocking the believers in this life.
In the Hereafter, that mockery is returned to them in a special way. God's word in the next world either abases with utter humiliation or elevates and dignifies, as echoed both in the HB Ps75:8 and the Quran 3:26. God will thus mock these earthly mockers, not through empty mockeries, as in laughter and finger pointing, as one imagines when this word appears.
For such anthropomorphisms, a God in Heaven looking down mocking, laughing while his punishment is inflicted, one needs not look further than the depictions of the HB
Ps2:2-4"Kings of a land stand up, and nobles take counsel together against the Lord and against His anointed?...He Who dwells in Heaven laughs; the Lord mocks them" Prov1:26-27"I, too, will laugh at your calamity, I will scoff when what you fear comes; when your fear comes like a storm, and your calamity comes like a whirlwind; when trouble and straits come upon you".God mocking or humiliating in the Quran is always linked to Him delivering verdicts and punishements, facts and evidence. His mocking IS His verdict, not dissociated from it. During their judgement, they will be proven wrong on various points that were the subject of their mockeries such as hell and the resurrection 83:17. A major humiliation will be when they are asked to call those whom they thought would be their saviors, and then realize their error 28:62-66. Again, this is no arbitrary setting that they will be made to experience, but a humiliating answer to their earthly abuse of the True God
16:27"Then on the resurrection day He will bring them to disgrace and say: Where are the associates you gave Me, for whose sake you became hostile?".
The innocent and oppressed of this world who could not defend themselves and whose pleadings were silenced and supressed will be represented by God Himself at the divine court. He will be the prosecutor on their behalf, claiming justice for them and facing their tormentors who are now ashamed and abased 3:161,81:8-9. This verse is speaking of the pre-islamic practice of burying infant children alive. The Quran here pictures an intense scene on the day of Resurrection, where the parents responsible of such horrendous act would be so contemptible in God's sight that they would not be addressed regarding the killing of their infant. So undeserving are they of being directly spoken to that God will turn to the victim, the one without a voice in this world and even if she had one would not be heard, and ask her if there exists any minutest fault for which she might have deserved to be murdered in that way 81:8-9. In their savagery, short mindedness and lack of God-consciousness they would sometimes not even spare their sons, for fear of poverty and lack of sustenance 6:151. It is to be noted that this abhorrent practice has perdured throughout time, and in a more widespread fashion in the form of abortion, most often for the same kinds of reasons. Fear of being able to sustain a child, in any aspect, can never be a reason for taking away his right to live 17:31. Sustenance at its source, does not reach anyone but by God's leave.
A report states
“A father should not be killed for the (killing) of his son.”
Many scholars criticized the authenticity of this hadith, but nevertheless chose to act upon it based on the principle laid down by the prophet that hudud/capital punishment should be avoided in case of doubt. Others stated that its application is for unintentional murder. Nobody however said that the killer, whether intentional or not, is exempt from punishment and compensation. What the jurists said at most, is that he should not be killed in retaliation. Imam Malik said
“If he kills him by throwing a sword at him and the like, he is not killed for killing his son in this manner, and if he slaughters him or kills him in a manner that undoubtedly suggests that the father had the intent to kill him without trying to discipline him first, then legal retribution should be applied to him. The mother in this regard is like the father. This is the correct view of our school of jurisprudence, and this is the view acted upon by those who consider that there is no legal retribution on the father [due to killing his son]. It was reported from Ahmad what indicates that he does not exempt the mother from legal retribution.” The prophet also said "“The believers are equal (in their rights to demand) blood (of the one found guilty of premeditated murder).”
We now get to this youtuber's hadith. We read in Sunan Abi Dawud
“The woman/alwaa'ida who buries alive her new-born girl and the girl who is buried/almaw'uda both will go to Hell.”This is a mistranslation as the scholars have understood alwaa'ida not as the woman delivering in the sense of conceiving, rather delivering the child to be buried. And almaw'uda refers to the mother whose daughter is buried. Women in labor were assisted by females, not males and it is these female nurses that assisted the mothers in their crimes. This logical understanding is corroborated in the same Sunan Abu Dawud, stating elsewhere
“Prophets are in Paradise, martyrs are in Paradise, infants are in Paradise and baby girls who were buried alive are in Paradise".The Quran itself vindicates these innocent victims, as stated earlier.
Allah mocks these mockers, not by sitting and laughing, but by delivering a judgement whose truth will be so manifest that the former deniers and mockers cannot but feel humiliated. Abasement is not an injustice when it results from presenting the truth. Abasement and humiliation is unfair when one is the victim of inappropriate, unjust words or deeds. When the mockers are presented all the truths they used to mock and deny, God's mockery wont be inappropriate or unjust.
Their long and difficult reckoning will be in itself a humiliation; Firstly with their inability to physically bend their knees and kneel to demonstrate their worldly obedience 68:42-3, then ironically, at one point their knees will be free to bend, not to worship, but to beg to be spared the entry in hell 19:72, just as they will beg in vain to be relieved from it later on from the punishment 40:49-50, chained 14:49,69:30-31, gathered 25:34"on their faces" ie in total spiritual abasement, shamefully holding their book of deeds behind their backs 84:10. They will witness a different spectacle on the plain of resurrection, which in itself is a type of abasement
66:8"on the day on which Allah will not abase the Prophet and those who believe with him; their light shall run on before them and on their right hands".
In contrast, this group will be upholding proudly their book of deeds 69:19,83:18,84:7. Their humiliation will continue, as they witness the elevation, and honoring of those they disgraced on earth being praised and dignified by entities called ashaab al aaraf, right before their admission to heaven 7:46-49, begging them for water to be relieved from the distress of that Day 7:50, asking a share of the light beaming on the righteous while they stand in darkness
57:13-15"Wait for us so that we may acquire light from your light. It will be said (to them): Go back behind you and seek a light. And a wall would be struck between them with a door, its interior containing mercy, but on its outside, there will be torture".Their faces will be blackened 3:106,39:60 as if literally
10:27"covered with slices of the dense darkness of night",
their whole being engulfed by a thick and burning smoke driving them inside of hell 44:10-11,77:30-4. The absence of light upon the wicked on the day of judgement is alluded to in the Hebrew Bible, including in Job38:14-15. The mocking faces they were making in this life, will be reproduced in the hereafter, but not by their will and desire, rather the violence and intensity of the fire that will come in contact with their faces will cause them contortion in their facial expressions and scaling back of their lips from the heat 23:104. Such descriptions conform with the Quranic notion of there being a physical connection between this world's deeds and the experiences of the hereafter.
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