We live in a society that’s filled with rumors, gossip and backbiting. And if we’re not careful, we’ll get pulled in and become carriers of that poison. Rumors, gossiping and backbiting is an ugly, ungodly, deceitful and soul-destroying habit that, if you have it, must be broken, repented of and replaced with words that edify. Rumors, gossiping and backbiting is ungodly and destructive. We should therefore avoid rumors, gossiping and backbiting at all costs. God said, Do not concern yourself with things about which you have no knowledge. Verily, your hearing, sight, and heart -- all of them will be called to account (Quran 17:36). Why do not the believing men and women, whenever such [a rumor] is heard, think the best of one another and say, “This is an obvious falsehood”? ... When you take it up with your tongues, uttering with your mouths something of which you have no knowledge, you deem it a light matter. Whereas in the sight of God it is an awful thing! (Quran 24: 12-15). Oh you who believe! If a wicked person comes to you with any news, ascertain the truth, lest you harm people unwittingly, and afterwards become full of repentance for what you have done (Quran 49:6). O you who believe! Let not some men among you laugh at others; it may be that the (latter) are better than the (former). Nor let some women laugh at others; it may be that the (latter are better than the (former). Nor defame nor be sarcastic to each other, nor call each other by (offensive) nicknames. Ill-seeming is a name connoting wickedness, (to be used of one) after he has believed. And those who do not desist are (indeed) doing wrong. Oh you who believe! Avoid suspicion as much (as possible), for suspicion in some cases is a sin. And spy not on each other behind their backs. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? No, you would abhor it...But fear Allah. For Allah is Oft-Returning, Most Merciful (Quran 49:11-12). Those who say they are religious people must seize this common behavior, its a sin. Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 07:07:15 +0000
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