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We fly for refuge unto Him (to deliver us) from the mischief of our
minds and from the evil consequences of our actions.
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Prosecutors say the 41-year-old suspect, who has confessed to the crime, is not being treated as insane.
The accused cut off part of the victim's body by mutual agreement because they wanted to eat it together,
police said in a statement.
The suspect then killed the man -- a 42-year-old from Berlin -- with deep cuts to the neck and chopped the
body into pieces that he froze and later ate, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors have named neither the victim nor suspect. Both men were computer technicians, German
newspapers said. Police believe the killing happened in March last year.
Police arrested the man, who lives in Rotenburg-an-der-Fulda, near Kassel, in the German state of Hesse,
after he posted an Internet ad seeking another male volunteer to satisfy his appetites.
Kassel prosecutor Hans-Manfred Jung told Reuters news agency the man was in custody and was regarded
as capable of standing trial.
"The deed appears to stem from cannibalistic and homosexual tendencies shared by both men," police said
in a statement.
Officers were searching the suspect's home -- an 18th century manor house -- on Friday, and said they had
found frozen human flesh and bones as well as video recordings of the crime.
Neighbors said they found the story difficult to comprehend. One said: "It was sort of clear to us that he had
a different perspective on life than we did but he was a normal person, to speak to him, to drink a glass of
beer with him, just like you and me."
CNN's Stephanie Halasz said the case, which had shocked the country, was dominating the tabloid press.
Some newspapers had talked to psychologists in an attempt to try to understand the crime, she said.
Bild newspaper described the crime as the most bizarre crime of modern German criminal history. "A man
was led to the butcher's block, and eaten," it said.
It is Germany's second headline-grabbing murder case this year after a young couple was jailed in January
for killing a friend and stabbing him 66 times in a Satanic ritual
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So you might ask the question what this story has to do with Islam, and this
khutbah. The following hadith will answer this question. Imam Asbahanee relates
from Rasullah, that on the day of Judgment:
A person who backbited another Muslim the body of that person will be placed
before him. And it will be said to him eat just as you ate of his flesh in the world.
And then the person who backbited will be forced to eat.
Therefore I want to continue today from our Khutbah from last time on the topic
of gheebah.
So imagine being force fed something that you would hate to eat, what will you
do, you will make face, you will scream, you will pant, but to no avail that person
who backbited will be forced to the corpse of the one they backbited on
according to this hadith.
So brothers and sisters in Islam just like that sick german canbalist who ate the
flesh of his sick volunteer, the sin of backbiting is a form of canabilism in Islam.
And this is what Allah Tala’ has compared to in the Quran in 49:12:
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So as we talked about last time our Beloved (SAW) define gheebah when he
said to his campanions:
RasulAllah said to his companions, "Do you know what gheebah is?"
He said, "It is to mention something about your brother (in his absence) that he
would hate."
He sal Allaahu alayhi wa sallam said, "If what you said about him is true then you
would have backbitten him, and if it is not true, then you would have slandered
him (buhtaan)" (Muslim).
Now what happens is that many times we make excuses for our backbiting we
say things like well, I have the courage to say it to his face. Another excuse that
we come out with is that I am only saying a story, or incident, or a fact. All these
are not valid excuses for gheebah according to our scholars. Again gheebah is
simply saying something that is true about some in his absence that he dislikes.
So the problem is that we take the sin of gheebah to lightly. Many time you will
find that we pray, fast, eat only zabhih meat, do all kinds of good deeds but yet
we fall into this sin of gheebah.
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But again Islam has set a high moral bar by the wisdom of Allah on the gheebah.
And again gheebah is a form of cannibalism.
And if we look at our Scholars, the Sahab, our Beloved Prophet was very
sensitive to the sin of gheebah.
Imam Dawood Athi (Rahmatullah-ulh, May Allah have mercy upon him) one day
he was walking along a path and all of a sudden he fell down unconscious. When
Imam Dawood awoke from passing out, the people asked him what happened.
Imam Dawood said I saw the spot that in the past on one occasion I had spoken
ill of someone behind their back. And all of a sudden I was hit by a vision of the
day of judgment when I will be standing in the court of Allah, and that person will
demand compensation, demand retribution for the backbiting, when I saw that
vision I fell unconscious.
So look at the pious people how sensitive that they are about even if they commit
this sin one time, they are so sensitive to it, yet we are not.
The Imam reported that for 30 days after he woke from that dream every time he
ate he felt that taste of that pork in his mouth. So again look how sensitive these
pious people are to gheebah, that if they only do gheebah once look what a
shock it is to their conscious but we commit this all the time and we are
insensitive to it.
Interestingly enough when I was researching on this topic I came across many
articles that mentioned that firefighters who have been in fire where people
where burning report that the smell of burning human flesh smells like pork. So
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Subhana-Allah look at this dream of this Imam and being forced to eat pork
because of one instance of gheebah and look how firefighters report that actual
burning human flesh smells like pork.
Look at the example of our Beloved Rasool, one of the wives of Rasullah Safiyah
who was jew before converting to Islam, did not have a mount, and Zainab bint
Jahsh had a spare mount, so Rasullah asked Zainab to give her extra mount to
Safiyah. Zainab said in the absence of Safiyah “Shall I give my camel to this
Jewishess” Rasullah SAW turned away, and did not speak to Zainab bint Jahsh
for 2.5 months.
Hadith by Ibn majah on the man who committed zina and admitted to
Rasullah(SAW)
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May Allah grace you and us with the blessings of the grand Qurr’an, and
may it benefit us and you with the verses and with wise commemoration, for
He the Almighty is Generous, Noble, Sovereign, Benign, Compassionate,
and Merciful.
PART II
So we have been continuing on the subject of backbiting, and talking about the
enormity, kabir sin that backbiting is, and how the pious generations took it so
serious, and how we could end up aouzbillah min zhlik (May Allah protect us
from this) if we backbite being forced fed the dead corpse of the person(s) we
backbited in the hearafter, and that if we fall into this sin we must, we must make
toubah.
So we see how serious the pious people, the sahib, and our Beloved (SAW) took
the sin of gheebah.
That whoever believes in Allah and the day of judgment, should not be mean to
their neighbors, treat their guest with honor, and say something good or be
quiet.
He sal Allaahu alayhi wa sallam said, "Hold your tongue! Make your house
spacious for your guest. And cry over your (own) faults” (Tirmidhi)!
May Allah give us tafeeq to follow the Quran and Sunnah of our Beloved (SAW).
Now some may think well, it is so hard to stop, and it is so easy to backbite, and I
cannot stop, and we end up doing it all the time, so what is the point of making
toubah. But if we think like this then we fail to realize on Allah Tala’ Mercy, or
perhaps. Allah Tala tells in 73:20:
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Allah says: "And seek forgiveness of Allah. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful." [al-
Muzammil (73):20]
Beloved(SAW):
Al-Bukhaari (7507) and Muslim (2758) narrated from Abu Hurayrah that the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said that his Lord said: “My slave commits
sin, then he says, ‘O Allaah, forgive me my sin.’ Then Allaah says, ‘My slave has
committed a sin, but he knows that he has a Lord Who forgives sin and takes away sin.
So I forgive My slave.’ Then he commits sin again, and says, ‘O Allaah, forgive me my
sin.’ Then Allaah says, ‘My slave has committed a sin, but he knows that he has a Lord
Who forgives sin and takes away sin. So I forgive My slave.’ Then he commits sin again,
and says, ‘O Allaah, forgive me my sin.’ Then Allaah says, ‘My slave has committed a
sin, but he knows that he has a Lord Who forgives sin and takes away sin. So I forgive
My slave.’ …”
The scholars mentioned that we should not be using the forgiveness of Allah as
an excuse to sin, but rather we should not despair in Allah’s Mercy and
forgiveness, and be sincere in our toubah.
Ibn Abi Dunya narrated with his isnaad that ‘Ali said: “The best of you is every tempted
one who repents (i.e., every time he is tempted by this world, he repents).” It was said,
“What if he sins again?” He said, “He should ask Allaah for forgiveness and repent.” It
was said, “What if he sins again?” He said, “He should ask Allaah for forgiveness and
repent.” It was said, “What if he sins again?” He said, “He should ask Allaah for
forgiveness and repent.” It was said, “For how long?” He said, “Until the Shaytaan is
defeated.”
Now one might ask the question what about times when gheebah is permissible,
or are there times where gheebah is permissible.
And the answer to this is “Yes”, but there are very very few times and the
conditions upon them are rigid. Inshallah next time we will talk about the very few
times where gheebah is allowed.
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