“We Will Make Our Wives Dance Naked” — Defying the Sacred Law in Reply to a Sermon on Veiling

Question

At one gathering two scholars preached. The first delivered a sermon on veiling and departed. After him two men began reviling that scholar, saying: “He has merely studied and come; he is no scholar at all — and we will make our wives dance naked in front of people.” Hearing this, the second scholar admonished them at length, reciting the Qur’an and hadith, but they would not listen; whereupon that scholar pronounced a ruling of kufr against them. Is this ruling correct or not?

Answer

To reject a ruling of the Sacred Law in this way, while knowing it, is to set oneself against the Sacred Law — and that is not the conduct of a Muslim but conduct like that of the disbelievers. Therefore in this sense it is also correct to call it kufr, since the usual outcome of such behaviour is that a person ends up committing irreverence and insolence toward the Qur’an and…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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