السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ, There are a few jokes online about some rulings within the madhahib. For instance, in the Shafi’I madhab there is a minority opinion that touching one’s wife breaks the wudu, so people show pictures of a couple holding hands in front of a masjid or wearing gloves etc. as a joke alluding to this ruling. Would this be considered as mocking the deen of All?h?

All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.

Such jokes that are intended to refer to some jurisprudential rulings if it does not despise the rulings of the Sharee’ah or mocking and making fun of it, then it is not included in mocking the religion. Al-Ghazali said in Ihyaa’ ‘Uloom ad-Deen: “The meaning of mocking is disdaining and belittling and pointing out to the faults and defects in a manner that makes people laugh.” [End of quote]

However, this does not mean that it is permissible to spread, circulate, and publicize these jokes. Issues related to Islamic rulings should be preserved from humor, misuse, and mockery.

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Allah Knows best.