السَبُّ

INSULTING

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2– The Prophet (SAWA) said, 'To insult a believer is a gross iniquity, to kill him is infidelity, and to backbite him is an act of disobedience of Allah.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 75, p. 148, no. 6]

3– The Prophet (SAWA) said, 'Do not insult the winds for verily they are commanded
[to blow], nor insult the mountains, nor time, nor the days, nor the nights, lest you transgress thereby and it comes back to you.’
[`AeIlal al-Shara’i`a , p. 577, no. 1]

4– The Prophet (SAWA) said, 'Do not insult people lest you procure animosity from them.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 360, no. 3]

5– Imam Ali (AS) said to Qanbar when he wished to insult a man who had insulted him, 'Careful Qanbar! Leave your insulter to his disdain and you will please the Beneficent Lord, displease Satan and punish thereby your enemy, for by the One who split the grain and created the breeze, there is no stance better than clemency with which a believer can please his Lord, and nothing like silence to offend Satan, and an idiot is best punished by ignoring him.’
[Amali al-Mufid, p. 118, no. 2]

6– Imam al-Kazim (AS) when he saw two people insulting each other, said, 'The initiator is the more unjust and bears his own sin as well as the sin of his opponent as long as the latter does not retort.’
[Tuhaf al-`Uqoul, no. 412]

7– Imam al-Kazim (AS) said, 'Whenever two people insult each other, the more superior of the two sinks to the level of the more inferior one.’
[A`alam al-Din, p. 305]

8– The Prophet (SAWA) said, 'Whoever insults any of the prophets, kill him; and he who insults a vicegerent is as one who has insulted a prophet.’
[Amali al-Tusi, p. 365, no. 769]

9– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) when he was asked about someone who insulted the Prophet (SAWA), replied, 'The most inferior person
[in society] must kill him, and if not him, then the second most inferior, and so on until at the last resort he must be killed by the imÁm
[leader of the congregational prayer].’
[al-Kafi, v. 7, p. 259, no. 21]

10– The Prophet (SAWA) said, 'If any of you ever insults his fellow brother, he must not insult his family or his father or mother. He can only say - if he knows these flaws for certain - 'You are indeed a miser, or you are indeed a coward, or you are indeed a liar' only if he is certain of the existence of these traits.
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 8134]