{"id":1572,"date":"2015-03-18T16:07:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T20:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darussaafi.wordpress.com\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2015-03-18T16:07:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T20:07:37","slug":"the-ruling-on-using-jokeslaughter-as-a-means-of-dawah-shaikh-abdul-muhsin-al-abbad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":"The Ruling on Using Jokes\/Laughter as a Means of Da&#8217;wah &#8211; Shaikh Abdul-Muhsin al-&#8216;Abbad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><strong>Question<\/strong>: Oh Virtuous Shaikh, some callers have emerged today using laughter and jokes as a means of da&#8217;wah with the argument that it attracts the hearts of the youth. So what is the ruling on this?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer<\/strong>: &#8220;This is not good. This is an action that is not good. A person should be someone of seriousness and not someone of humor\/jokes&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[Sharh Ibn Majah no. 306]<\/p>\n<p>Translated by<\/p>\n<p>Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan<\/p>\n<p>Abu Sulaymaan<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Oh Virtuous Shaikh, some callers have emerged today using laughter and jokes as a means of da&#8217;wah with the argument that it attracts the hearts of the youth. So what is the ruling on this? Answer: &#8220;This is not good. This is an action that is not good. A person should be someone of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}