Remembrance 1 from Chapter 331
Words which it is deplorable to use
If a Muslim supplicates against a Muslim and says: ‘O Allah, snatch his faith away from him,’ he has disobeyed [Allah] by doing so. Does he become a disbeliever merely by uttering this? There are two opinions which our colleagues hold and which have been reported by al-Qāḍī Ḥusayn, one of the Imams of our colleagues in al-Fatāwā, the more authoritative of which is that he does not become a disbeliever. They cite as proof what Allah says when narrating the story of Mūsā: “Lord, deface the features of their wealth, and impart hardness to their hearts, so they shall not believe until they see the grievous chastisement.” [11].About this method of proof there are some views, even if we say that the Sharī‘ah of those before us is a Sharī‘ah for us.