Know – may Allah grant us success and you as well – that all those who slander the Prophet (SAW), or defame him, or attribute flaws to him concerning his person, his lineage, his religion, or any of his features, or put him in a bad light, or compare him to anything else as a means of slandering him, contempt for him, belittling his state of affairs, degrading him, or shaming him – they slander him, and the ruling for them is the ruling for slanderers; they are to be killed, as we make clear; and we make no exceptions in any of the judgments of this chapter in this intent, and we have no reservations, either in stating clearly or making allusions. Similarly for anyone who curses him, or makes invocations against him, or wishes harm on him, or unduly attributes anything to his position as a means of defiling him, or abuses his honorable authority with foolish remarks, obscenities, reprehensible speech, and falsehood, or dishonors him with any of the distress and trials that came upon him, or holds him in contempt for any of the conceivable and commonplace natural human features he may have had. All of this is the universal consensus of the scholars and imams dictating legal opinions [fatwa] from among the Companions (may the pleasure of Allah be upon them in perpetuity).