notifications_active Weekly Meshkat-e Noor Session: Thursdays at 20:30 at Haj Reza Mosque
(Questions from a younger sister)
About harassment and causing harm: if someone bothers others and hurts another person with their words, even making them ill, will God hold them accountable for what they have done? What should we do? Should we curse or pray against that person, or entrust them to God?
Anyone who hurts a believing man or woman has declared war on God, and God will take vengeance on their behalf. We should entrust such a person to God. On the Day of Judgment, wrongdoers will be taken to Hell with the flesh stripped from their faces because they harmed believers and showed them hostility.
Whoever harms a believing man or woman has gone to war against God, and God, the Almighty, will take vengeance on their behalf. Entrust them to God, the Exalted.
Al-Aḥzāb 33:58
و الذین یؤذون المؤمنین و المؤمنات بغیر ما اکتسبوا فقد احتملوا بهتانا و إثما مبینا
Those who harm believing men and women for something they did not do have burdened themselves with slander and manifest sin.
Abū ʿAbd Allāh (peace be upon him) said: “On the Day of Resurrection, a herald will call out, ‘Where are those who opposed My friends?’ A group of people will rise, with no flesh on their faces. The herald will say, ‘These are the ones who harmed the believers, opposed them, showed them enmity, and reproached them for their faith.’ Then they will be ordered to be taken to Hell.”
Al-Kāfī (Islamic edition), vol. 2, p. 351
Imam al-Ṣādiq (peace be upon him) said: “When the Day of Resurrection comes, a herald will call out: ‘Where are those who opposed My friends?’ A group of people will rise, with no flesh on their faces. The herald will say: ‘These are the ones who tormented the believers, contended with them, bore them enmity, and reproached them on account of their faith.’ Then the order will be given to take them to Hell.”
Then Imam al-Ṣādiq (peace be upon him) said: “By God, they had been in agreement and solidarity with the believers in words, but they withheld their rights and failed to pay them, and they exposed their secrets.”
Thawāb al-Aʿmāl wa ʿIqāb al-Aʿmāl, translated by Ḥasan-Zādeh, p. 590