Is it Islamic to send your curses on someone?

Question

I've seen people say may Allah curse them. Is this Islamic, to pray that God will curse other people?

Answer 1

Yes , Its Islamic.

Wikipedia:-Mubahala (Arabic: مباهلة Cursing) or Li’an (Arabic: لعان) refers in Islamic tradition to invoking the curse of God on the erring party as a means to prove one's truthfulness.

In Sahih Bukhari

Al-'Aqib and Saiyid, the rulers of Najran, came to Allah's Apostle with the intention of doing Lian one of them said to the other, "Do not do (this Lian) for, by Allah, if he is a Prophet and we do this Lian, neither we, nor our offspring after us will be successful." Then both of them said (to the Prophet), "We will give what you should ask but you should send a trustworthy man with us, and do not send any person with us but an honest one." The Prophet said, "I will send an honest man who Is really trustworthy." Then every one of the companions of Allah's Apostle wished to be that one. Then the Prophet said, "Get up, O Abu 'Ubaida bin Al-Jarrah." When he got up, Allah's Apostle said, "This is the Trustworthy man of this (Muslim) nation."Sahih Bukhari 006.060.371

In the Qur'an

The event is referred to in the Qur'an and Tafsirs of 3:61[4], where the prophet was ordered to invite the disputants regarding the nature of Jesus to imprecation:

    If any one disputes in this matter with thee, now after (full) knowledge Hath come to thee, say: "Come! let us gather together,- our sons and your sons, our women and your women, ourselves and yourselves: Then let us earnestly pray, and invoke the curse of Allah on those who lie! 3:61

Answer 2

O hai sui cursing is no no good! but wah bot meh owner hitting me pls elp!!

Answer 3

It is not Islamic. It is not sane.

Answer 4

No its Not Islamic ! It just shows Intolerance and naive  behavior of Majority of  muslims !

They Just cant handle the Truth ! They Get all Emotional and start sending curses ! Saying May Allah show them right Path is much then saying may Allah Curse them !

may Allah teach these people some manners aswell !

Answer 5

Jesus said to turn the other cheek, to forgive 70 X 7 times in one day and to love your enemies,

.  Islam answers to a different God where they  have favor from Allah for  doing what Islamic governments are doing in Darfur because for a Moslim to go to Heaven he must be killed while killing non Moslims or they have to go to h**l themselves.

. Jesus is Lord so whatever a Moslim does in the name of Allah he/she will have to pay for it on Judgment Day

Answer 6

Harold you're on crack. It's funny how you put Jesus in your answer, yet what you said was so un-Jesus like or even unChristian like. If you're such a good Christian or if you have any respect for Jesus's words, then you should also know that Jesus taught NOT to make false claims against others... which is exactly what you did. So before you advertise your beliefs, make sure you also follow them.

Answer 7

No, of course not. The Prophet (peace be upon him) preached nothing but to say the good words.

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said, "Do not curse one another, invoking Curse of Allah or Wrath of Allah or the fire of h**l.''

He also said: "A true believer is not involved in taunting, or frequently cursing (others) or in indecency or abusing.''

Answer 8

It is better to avoid it as much as you can.Islam does not appreaciates usage of harsh words and wishes for others.

The following Hadith is from Sahih Bukhari, which also tells us to avoid it:

Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:

On 'Id ul Fitr or 'Id ul Adha Allah's Apostle (SallAllaahu `Alayhi Wa Sallam) went out to the Musalla. After finishing the prayer, he delivered the sermon and ordered the people to give alms. He said, "O people! Give alms." Then he went towards the women and said. "O women! Give alms, for I have seen that the majority of the dwellers of h**l-Fire were you (women)." The women asked, "O Allah's Apostle! What is the reason for it?" He replied, "O women! You curse frequently, and are ungrateful to your husbands. I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religion than you. O women, some of you can lead a cautious wise man astray." Then he left. And when he reached his house, Zainab, the wife of Ibn Masud, came and asked permission to enter It was said, "O Allah's Apostle! It is Zainab." He asked, 'Which Zainab?" The reply was that she was the wife of Ibn Mas'ub. He said, "Yes, allow her to enter." And she was admitted. Then she said, "O Prophet of Allah! Today you ordered people to give alms and I had an ornament and intended to give it as alms, but Ibn Masud said that he and his children deserved it more than anybody else." The Prophet replied, "Ibn Masud had spoken the truth. Your husband and your children had more right to it than anybody else."

Reference is:

http://www.thenoblequran.com/sps/sbk/sah...

Answer 9

Not at all.

Cursing a believer is like murdering him.''

[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].

The Prophet (blessings and peace be upon him) said,

"A believer does not taunt, curse, abuse or talk indecently.”

Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 1740 Narrated by Abdullah ibn Mas'ud (r.a.)

The Prophet (blessings and peace be upon him) said,

"A believer does not taunt, curse, abuse or talk indecently.”

Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 1740 Narrated by Abdullah ibn Mas'ud (r.a.)

Remember that Prophet Mohammad PBUH prayed for both Umers to become a Muslim instead of cursing them and his prayer was answered.

Hadhrat Abdullah Ibn Abbas Rady Allahu Anhu reported the Prophet Sallallahu 'alaihi wa Sallam as saying, "O Allah, strengthen Islam with Abu Jahl bin Hisham, or with Umar bin al-Khattab". In the morning, Sayyidina 'Umar Rady Allahu Anhu went to the Prophet Sallallahu 'alaihi wa Sallam and accepted Islam; then prayed openly in the mosque. (Ahmad and Tirmidhi)

Answer 10

Isn't that what shias do?

Answer 11

it's not Islamic. it's just culture

Answer 12

No as bad character spoils good deeds.  

I will give you this answer by Yusuf Estes:

"Allah has many characteristics we often call the "Ninety-nine Names of Allah." These include: 'The All-Loving (Al Wadud); The Most-Kind; The Most-Just; The Most-Forgiving; The Most Merciful; The Most Compassionate; The All-Patient; The One Who Guides."

From these most excellent qualities we immediately understand, we as Muslims, should exhibit more of these attributes in our own behavior, as did the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. Hatred for the sake of hating is very dangerous and will ultimately destroy the one doing it. Don't do it.

Consider what happened to rasoolullah (Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah), peace be upon him, when he made the journey to At-Taif, a city in the Mekkah area of Arabia. He was not recevied by the leaders there (against their normal custom of receiving all visitors for three days and nights, without so much as asking them a single question).

They even turned the urchins of the street against him and his companion, throwing rocks and stones at them. The blood of our prophet, peace be upon him, filled his sandals. Now, consider what happened next. The Arch-Angel (Ruh Qadus or Holy Spirit), Gabriel came to him and told him, Allah had angels in place who would bring the mountains of At-Taif crumbling down on them.

All he had to do was say the word, and Allah would give the command and these folks would all be destroyed. Did he do it? What would you do in similar cricumstances? Muhammad (s.a.w) raised his hands and made dua (supplication) FOR them, not AGAINST them. He prayed and asked Allah to guide them to the truth and hoped for someone of them to worship Allah, Alone without any partners.  And after all, that is what ISLAM is all about anyway, isn't it?

Our beloved prophet (s.a.w) did not curse anyone except in extreme cases for specific purposes. Scholars throughout the world have all told me essentially the same thing, we should never engage in cursing people, except in the extreme conditions and for similar purposes as did our role model, rasoolullah, sallalahu alayhi wassallam."

edit: A Muslim cursing another Muslim? That upsets me!  As Muslims united we stand, divided we fall.  We have enough non - Muslims cursing us, let along our fellow brother or sister in Islam!  

Salam.  

Answer 13

Ummmm....what do you mean by invoke a curse?  

Like....i give you 10 years of bad luck.......(well no one can do anything like that......so that doesn't really matter).

Now praying for god to curse people.....ive never heard of anyone doing that until like 2 days ago.   Ran across a random article online.....and it did seem really cultural.  

But as far as i know, its not islamic at all....i can see that falling under back biting which is a sin.  

Answer 14

no it is very wrong and has very bad sins. and yes, it is practiced so much as part of common slangs among many arab people.

To Curse: means to judge a person is out of the mercy of God. That is God will not forgive him. This is a very harsh verdict, that only God can do this judgement.

Forgiveness is open for every single human till he/she die.

- So, it is big sin to curse, someone (muslim or non-muslim), or even an object. Prophet said, that a curse will go and find that thing that been cursed, if it was not eligibale, it will go back to the person who sent it.

- You should not even curse someone like Bush. Conceptually, he might still convert to a very good person and ask forgiveness. If he died, then it is different story.

- Only people that mentioned in Quran (like Abo Lahab, or Pharon) are allowed to be cursed, as God gave the verdict on them. Or who died and worth cursing.

- You can curse in generalization (cursing criminals who fight and kill muslims in general). Or conditional curse: cursing someone "if" he/she died in these crimes. Cursing the cartoonist that mock the prophet if he died like this.

- It worth mentioning, that it is not allowed also to curse days or time.

(i curse the day i met you) is common slang among many.

Indirectly, it means you disagree about the fate and destiney that God put for you as a test.

Or statements like (youm menayel, youm aswad, ..etc)

There is a hadeeth on prophet with that meaning (yasob ibn adam al-dahr fa yasobani ...etc)

It goes against the belief of fate, with its good and bad.

But, it is okay to say "difficult or tough day"

as in Quran said "youm 3aseeb)