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Avoiding sarcasm
A sarcastic attitude is quite widespread among that segment of
people who live their lives far from the Qur'an. Among ignorant
people, some may ridicule others' shortcomings, mistakes, physical
abnormalities, clothing, lack of material possessions, carelessness,
behaviour, the way they talk, and in short, almost everything about
them. To make fun of someone, they use certain words and gestures
or mimic certain facial expressions. For the person making fun, it is
not important that he may hurt the other person's feelings, make
them sad, annoyed, upset or anxious. The important thing is to feed
their own pride and to humiliate the object of their ridicule.
In the Qur'an, Allah definitely forbids people ridiculing others:
You who believe! People should not ridicule others who may
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