question is why?
We have this mentality, the Muslims have developed this mindset: ‘They’re
out to get us man. These
kuffār
, they hate us. They keep making these cartoons
against us, they keep doing this propaganda against us,
they hate everything
about Islam, they’re coming after this, that and the other’. ‘They’, ‘they’,
‘they’—we don’t have any time to look in the mirror. The prophets (
ʿalayhim al-
salām
) were also made fun of, as I told you. The
Ṣaḥābah
were also made fun of
—
wa-yaskharūna min alladhīna amanū
(
al-Baqarah
2: 212)—it’s in the Qur’an:
the
kuffār
made fun of those who believed
.
It’s in the Qur’an, but the
fundamental question is, why were they made fun of and why are we being made
fun of? Is it the same thing? And I argue it is not. Those people were made fun
of because that was one of the ways to shut down the work of Islam. One of the
ways to stop Islam from spreading because they didn’t know what else to do.
Islam
was so thought-provoking, Islam was so eye-opening, Islam called for
justice, it questioned injustices happening in that society and people were
gravitating—young people, old people—were gravitating
towards Islam and
they didn’t know how to stop it. So they came out with the tactic of calling the
Messenger (
ṣallā Allāh ʿalayhi wa-sallam
) a
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