Rasulallah saying that ’when we laugh we should try to calm ourselves as soon as possible’ doesn’t mean what the common idiot makes of it, to stop laughter in the middle of its enlightening process of oblivion for the mindset and relief, or hitting someone for laughing out of spontaneity in the middle of a prayer..
Such things should be excused if you feel the joy coming at the sound of it. No, what Rasulallah means William Blake thousand years later described in PROVERBS OF HELL: EXCESS OF SORROW LAUGHS. Humour has plagued the world all since the powers of evil won the first world war in 1917, exactly for this very reason. People, idiots as they are, forgetting this fact and think while laughing: now I am alright!, fooling themselves, or at least trying. . And dis-succeeding again and again. ’I am not up for the task yet’ they ascertain, bearing the basic trauma of conception, which causes a split as they think ’now I am laughing myself free from sorrow’ ’everything is fine’.. What a horrible line, if you really think you mean it, that is what Rasulallah warns us from ever thinking, ever forgetting that it is because we are so sad we can’t take it, and that is why we are actually laughing, slaughtering the sloth.
Thus we are not nipped in the bud suddenly, inflicted with the split of self deception.
My suspicion is, that the loosing of hair, that can be readily observed in many Muslim tribes, upon the heads of the males early in life, has its root cause in exactly this misinterpretation of these words by rasulallah salla allahu aleyhi wa salam.
P.S. A necessary disclaimer: The title of this post or its content in text has nothing to do with the sharing of Sayyid Hassan Nassrallah’s funeral – the two facts are not interconnected in any way. The text was thought of in a totally different context than the funeral, and even before knowing that the funeral of the leader took place today. D.S.