Similarly, scoffing at and ridiculing religion and things religious has also been the habit of the Jews and Christians ho received the Scripture before. As such, Allah Most High says: -

In these verses Allah Most High hath forbidden friendship with Jews and Christians because they have made religion a plaything and a jest.

Hence, as it has already been stated in the foregone, that the unfortunate, deprived, unlucky wretches who, notwithstanding their oral claims of Islam, consider the methods and Sunnahs of Islam archaic and look at them contemptuously and who gibe at those who act upon the Islamic ways and Sunnahs, but in fact also talk blasphemy, should be completely avoided; neither should anyone have friendship nor relations with them; on the contrary, other Muslims should also be saved from them, because association with such ill-natured people puts faith into jeopardy, while to save one's own as well as other Muslim brethren's faith and belief is a duty.

In the first verse there is mention of making fun of absolute religion or anything religious and in the second it is about jesting at the prayer-call (Azan). Imam Zutiri says that there is mention of the prayer-call in the Quran also and then he recited the above-quoted verse.