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Muslims generally believe it is wrong to curse your enemies, full stop. Ulama generally promote this, and we agree it is better to forgive. But not everyone is so forgiving and this view indicates Islam has no justice system. The Qur’an talks repeatedly about taking revenge, but the Ulama rarely talk about this:
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was instructed to do Mubahala with the delegation of Najran:
Say: “Come, let us call our sons and your sons, our women and your women, ourselves and yourselves, then supplicate earnestly [together] and invoke the curse of Allah upon the liars [among us].” — Quran 3:6
Prophet Noah عليه السلام made the following dua against the disbelievers of his time:
لا تذر على الأرض من الكافرين ديارا … ولا تزد الظالمين إلا تبارا
My Lord, do not leave upon the earth from among the disbelievers an inhabitant … and do not increase the wrongdoers except in destruction.
— Quran 71:26-28
The Prophet Moses عليه السلام made the following dua against Pharaoh and his establishment:
ربنا اطمس على أموالهم واشدد على قلوبهم فلا يؤمنوا حتى يروا العذاب الأليم
Our Lord, obliterate their wealth and harden their hearts so that they will not believe until they see the painful punishment.
— Quran 10:88
The Dua of the oppressed is powerful
“And be wary of the supplication of the oppressed, for between it and Allah there is no barrier.” [Sahîh al-Bukhârî]
Sa’eed RA supplicated: “O Allah! If she is a liar, deprive her of her eye sight and cause her to die in her land.” ‘Urwah said: “She did not die till she became blind. While she was walking in her land (concerning which the dispute arose) she fell down into a pit and died.”
[ Bukhari]
ولمن انتصر بعد ظلمه فأولئك ما عليهم من سبيل
“And whoever avenges himself after having been wronged – those have not upon them any cause [for blame].” 42:41
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ made dua against the disbelievers who had wronged him:
ملأ الله قبورهم وبيوتهم نارا كما شغلونا عن الصلاة الوسطى
“May Allah fill their (the infidels’) graves and houses with fire, as they have kept us so busy that we could not offer the middle prayer till the sun had set.”— Bukhari 6396
Ismail ibn Nazir Satia (one who is in dire need of Allah’s forgiveness, mercy and pleasure)
15th Shaban 1447