Bigotry: The Dark Danger

The Idea of Making Jews Responsible for the Sins of Muslims

“On the Day of Resurrection, my Ummah (nation) will be gathered into three groups. … One sort will come bearing on their backs heaps of sins like great mountains. ... God will say: ‘Unload the sins from them and put the same over the Jews and Christians…’” (110 Hadith Qudsi Chapter 1, Hadith 8; mentioned in Mustadrak of Hakim)

Let us respond to this false hadith with the Qur’an: All Muslims who arrive with mountains of sins will be judged for their own sins, and the Jews will be judged with their sins. Nobody will be able to load his sins onto someone else. He will be questioned only about his own sins. This is revealed explicitly in the Qur’an:

Whoever is guided is only guided to his own good. Whoever is misguided is only misguided to his detriment. No burden-bearer can bear another’s burden. … (Qur'an, 17:15)

In another verse of the Qur’an, God issues an explicit pronouncement regarding anyone who tries to load his own sins onto another:

Anyone who commits an error or an evil action, and then ascribes it to someone innocent, bears the weight of slander and clear wrongdoing. (Qur'an, 4:112)

Everyone will be responsible for his own actions in the hereafter. As God reveals, “Have fear of a Day when you will be returned to God. Then every self will be paid in full for what it earned.” (Qur'an, 2:281) no injustice will be inflicted on anyone in the hereafter. Nobody will be able to say, in the Presence of our Lord, “my sins have been transferred to him, so I am without sin.” He will be unable to repeat this shameless perspective there because his conscience will know that this idea is in fact a fraudulent one.

While God praises sincere Jews in the Qur'an, the fanatics believe in a so-called commandment that states they should be killed without question.