Insulting the Turban

Question

[Someone said:] “A certain religious scholar with a turban on his head looks like a big pig.” In reply I spoke up: “Insulting the turban is a very bad thing, for it is something beloved of the Noble Messenger ﷺ; he used it, and every Muslim should; you cannot stop its use. If you have a personal enmity with that scholar you may abuse him, beat him — but do not insult or abuse looking at the turban.” In reply to this another man spoke up: “Not using the turban brings no necessary loss — what do you even know?

Answer

If the purpose of the comparison with a pig was belittlement of the sunna turban, it entails kufr: [ar]كَفَّرَ الْحَنَفِيَّةُ بِأَلْفَاظٍ كَثِيرَةٍ وَأَفْعَالٍ تَصْدُرُ، كَمَنِ اسْتَقْبَحَ مِنْ آخَرَ جَعْلَ بَعْضِ الْعِمَامَةِ تَحْتَ حَلْقِهِ أَوْ إِحْفَاءَ شَارِبِهِ[/ar] “The Hanafis pronounced kufr for many words and acts that occur — for instance, one who found it ugly that…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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