The Muslim woman who truly understands the teachings of Islam is conscious of Allah (SWT), fearing Him in secret and in the open. She carefully avoids uttering any word of slander or malicious gossip that could anger her Lord and include her among those spreaders of malicious gossip who are severely condemned in the Quran and Sunnah. When she reads the words of Allah (SWT): ( . . . Nor speak ill of each other behind their backs. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? Nay, you would abhor it . . . But fear Allah, for Allah is Oft-Returning, Most Merciful.) (Quran 49:12) she is filled with revulsion for the hateful crime of gossip, which is likened to the eating of her dead sisters flesh. So she hastens to repent, as Allah (SWT) commands at the end of the ayah, encouraging the one who has fallen into the error of backbiting to repent quickly from it. She aheeds the words of the Prophet (PBUH), who said: The Muslim is the one from whose tongue and whose hand the Muslims are safe.63 @ sweet fathima
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