How Allah Will Mock Them

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How Allah Will Mock Them

Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Opening

We begin by praising Allah and bearing witness that none has the right to be worshipped or unconditionally obeyed except for him. And we bear witness that Muhammad (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) is his final messenger. We ask Allah to send his peace and blessings upon him, the prophets and messengers that came before him, his family and companions that served alongside him and those that follow in his blessed path until the Day of Judgment. And we ask Allah to make us amongst them. Allahumma ameen.

Allah's Mercy on the Day of Judgment

Dear brothers and sisters, when you look at the proceedings of the Day of Judgment, you don't see in your Lord a Lord who wants to humiliate the believers or humiliate the righteous, or humiliate those who are striving even if they fell short multiple times, especially when they weren't proud of their shortcomings. You see a Lord who does not mock people for their sins on the Day of Judgment.

You see a Lord that due to his mercy, not because of anything that we earned, puts a barrier between the one he is questioning on the Day of Judgment and those that are observing. When someone sins in private and sought to overcome those sins and used to seek forgiveness from Allah, you see a Lord who says that I protected you from the humiliation of that sin in this life and I am shielding you from its consequences today.

When you see the people enter into Jannah, you see a Lord who is so generous that he continues to give and to give and to give to those who enter into Jannah not because of their own a'mal, not because of their own deeds, but always because Allah embraces them in his mercy. May Allah embrace us all in his mercy. Ameen.

The Last Person to Enter Paradise

A Lord who continues to elevate and elevate and elevate even some of those who seem to be the most undeserving to the point that the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) mentions:

"The last person to enter paradise"

The last person to get out of the hellfire and to enter into paradise, and when he sees the kindness of Allah towards him, how Allah keeps giving him and giving him and giving him, he says to him - and I'm paraphrasing because it's not the core hadith of the khutbah - he says:

"Are you making fun of me? Oh Allah, are you mocking me or in some riwayat: Are you making fun of me and you are the Lord of the worlds?"

By giving me all of these things and promising me all of these things despite being the last person to enter into Jannah and you're giving me all of this? And Allah affirms that I do not make fun of my believing servants. I am NOT mocking you, but I do as I please, I do as I wish.

So you see a Rabb, a Lord who is generous, a Lord that is merciful, a Lord that gives and bestows, not a Lord that humiliates His righteous and striving servants who all will have their share of shortcomings on the day of judgment.

Divine Retribution Against Mockery

Now, why do I start off with this? Because Allah mentions that he will mock some people on the day of judgment. That some people will be humiliated in the hereafter. That some people will find that the behavior that they put forth is met with far worse consequences on the day of judgment.

And in these last hundred days or so, many of the concepts that used to only instill fear in the believers have actually started to give the believers some comfort. The idea of punishment and divine retribution and hellfire actually gives comfort to the believers when they see tyrants like those who are oppressing our brothers and sisters in Gaza act so invincible, so immune to everything.

When they see the mockery, when they see the ayat of Allah, the verses of the Quran being used to intimidate and to taunt the people of Quran. Imagine the arrogance of the Israeli occupation forces when they drop these pamphlets on the people with verses of the Quran taunting them, when they announced through the microphones taunting them with the verses of the Quran, when they blow up the masajid of Allah laughing like maniacs.

When it actually invades even their pop culture when there is laughter and sukhriya, a sense of mockery that sent that gives off the sentiment of invincibility: "No one can do anything to us. No one can do anything to us." When soldiers make TikTok videos of themselves after blowing up little children, that shows you not just how depraved that army is, but it also shows you to what extent they have been intoxicated by the illusion of their power.

Allah's Planning vs. Their Planning

"Indeed, they are planning a plan, But I too am planning a plan." (Quran 86:15-16)

"And they planned, but Allah planned. And Allah is the best of planners." (Quran 3:54)

Allah mentions they plan and Allah plans. They plot and Allah plots. But Allah also mentions that they will one day be mocked by their own mockery in the very first manifestation of that:

"And they will find what they did present [before them]" (Quran 18:49)

Can you imagine on the Day of Judgment when the videos are replayed in front of them and they're standing in front of رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ (Rabbi al-'Aalameen), standing in front of the Lord of the worlds, and they're being questioned as those videos play in front of them as their own words are used against them? And how low and pathetic they will feel if they don't repent to Allah when those things are put in front of them live and they can't lie about them or escape the consequences? That in and of itself is a great humiliation.

But Allah also responds to the unique element of mockery.

The Pain of Mockery and Shaytaan's Strategy

You see nothing hurts us more than the emotional pain of mockery even on top of the physical pain. And Shaytaan will try to use the mockery itself and the grief that it evokes within the believers to get them to stop believing in Allah or stop depending on Allah.

What does the Shaytaan seek through this? That you lose hope and that you lose a connection. And so he amplifies that mockery, gives the language to it and increases the volume of it so that you no longer feel encouraged to make dua, so that you no longer feel encouraged towards Allah in the midst of those moments. It is to break you psychologically and mentally.

Historical Examples from Mecca

And Allah mentions this in regards to the people of Mecca. You remember the criminals walking around the believers laughing at them. And when they walked by them they winked at each other like "hey look at these guys." Let's throw some shots at them completely unaccountable to anyone in this world. Let's throw some garbage on them today. How are you gonna humiliate the Muslims today? Are we gonna spit at them today? What new insult will we come up with? What new method of torture? Let's go pluck one of them and take them to the torture camp.

And then what did they do when they come home where most people come home after an honest living happy about what they earned?

"They go back to their families, they go back to each other and they laugh about how they exploited and took advantage of the believers." (Quran 83:31)

Look what I did to this person today - the equivalent of showing the TikTok videos, the equivalent of celebrating and dancing amongst themselves and talking about how invincible they are.

"When they used to see them they would say: Look at these people, not talking to them. They've all gone astray." (Quran 83:32)

Look how misguided they are.

"You were not sent as their keepers" (Quran 83:33)

Allah's Response on the Day of Judgment

And what does Allah say?

"So today those who believe will laugh at those who mocked them from the disbelievers. Today they will look down at them and laugh at them and mock them on elevated structures, looking at them, laughing at them, mocking them the way that they were once mocked." (Quran 83:34-35)

And what's the end of the surah? What's the theme?

"Have the disbelievers been repaid for what they used to do?" (Quran 83:36)

This is a question that Allah will ask to them: Are you satisfied now that Allah did not forget you? That those moments of mockery have come back to them, that you have the last laugh. Are you satisfied now? Oh old woman of Gaza, oh child of Gaza that walked through that humiliation. Are you satisfied? Look at them now. Look at these people now. Are you satisfied oh believers when you watch them mock your brothers and sisters and mock you by extension? Are you satisfied now as Allah has shown you his promise in regards to them?

The Hypocrites' Behavior

You see here are the things if you go through the verses of the Quran. Allah doesn't try to incentivize us towards Jannah by saying one day you get to mock people. The unit might mention because that's not in the quality of the believer - that the believer likes to mock people. The believer doesn't actually like to mock people. Allah discourages these spiritual diseases from us.

We don't have in us the intention to humiliate, and that's why the Muslims were able to be restrained, as Ibn Taymiyyah mentions, when they were put in a position of power with the same people who mutilated and mocked and did all of those things to them. They were naturally restrained by their taqwa. They didn't have a desire to respond in like manner, to mutilate people physically, to taunt and to humiliate them after they were put in a position of power.

So it's not something that you find laced throughout the Quran and the verses of Jannah that look forward to the day that you can mock and taunt. It was a comfort to the believers in their lowest moments: one day Allah will show you an example in those people and you will see it. And Allah will ask you the end of Surah Mutaffifin as Ibn Abbas (radiallahu anhu) says is a question:

One element is them facing their consequence. The other element is Allah compensating you for your pain, and there are different dimensions of that.

About the Hypocrites in Particular

Now here's the thing that the ulama mention. Allah says to us in Surah Al-Baqarah about the hypocrites in particular:

"When they see the believers they say we believe" (Quran 2:14)

"When they go back and they co amongst their devils" (Quran 2:14)

See there's always this element, you know, contrasting worlds.

"When they go back to their devils they say we are really with you. We were just making fun of them. We were just mocking them. We are with you. We were just mocking them." (Quran 2:14)

How many people in this day and age when it comes to our brothers and sisters in Palestine issue statements from the pulpits of states or from the pulpits of media and say we are with our brothers and sisters in Palestine, we're with the people of Gaza, while behind the scenes at the political and social level or whatever it is, are actually fueling the genocide and making sure that it continues.

When they see the believers they say we believe. When they go back to their devils:

"Allah mocks them and increases them in their blindness, increases them in their deviation until the moment that Allah will face them with it." (Quran 2:15)

The Concept of Divine Justice

Now again, it's not from the attributes of Allah, it's not from the names of Allah that suggest mockery or making fun of, as the Salaf mention. It is what the scholars of tafsir mention الْمُشاكلة al-mushakalah(.

"Tasmiyatu al-'iqaabi bismi adh-dhanb"

"That Allah responds to the crime in the same way that they put it forward."

You mock, you will be mocked. You forget, you will be forgotten. You deceive, you will be deceived. You will face the consequences of your actions. And when Allah spares you, it's just for a moment. And that's a comfort to the believers as well.

The Hypocrites on the Day of Judgment

Now when it comes to the hypocrites, on the Day of Judgment, the hypocrites who backstab the Muslims from within, who hurt the believers from within, and then go back to their people and say, we're really with you.

On the Day of Judgment, what does Allah say to us? Surah al-Hadid, Allah mentions that the believers go forth, and they have their nur, they have their light. And then the munafiqeen will call out to them, the hypocrites will call out to them. In what moment?

The hypocrites will call out as the believers are going forward with their light, and they will say: "Weren't we with you?" (Quran 57:14)

So first, they were looking around and they saw who had the light, and they situated themselves amongst the Muslims, the same way that hypocrites do in this life as well. But then, Allah starts to separate them and they get left behind. And as the wall comes down, they call out and look at the words that they use.

"Weren't we with you?"

What did Allah say they used to say in this world? They used to go back to their shayateen and say:

"Innaa ma'akum"

"We're really with you."

And so the same words are being used even, that they will call out and say: "Weren't we with you?" And so the mockery is when they think that they're going to still make it to the gates of paradise, but instead they find themselves driven to hellfire. May Allah protect us. Allahumma ameen.

Lessons for Ourselves

These are not verses that are given to us so that we can become cruel and heartless and seek moments of cruelty and harshness. These are given to us to remind us:

"Your Lord has not forgotten." (Quran 19:64)

Your Lord will not forget. Your Lord sees everything that you see and your Lord has more power over the situation than you have, and more power than anyone perceives in the moment. Your Lord sees, your Lord is in control, and every single word that is said of mockery and every single moment that people feel invincible, that oppressors feel invincible, will lead to a moment of humiliation on the Day of Judgment.

How do we bring this back to ourselves, dear brothers and sisters? First and foremost, as with everything else, we look to make sure that we don't have any elements of that oppression in ourselves.