Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from March 15, 2014

The danger of backbiting :

Islam forbid backbiting and considered a grave sin due to its effect in hurthing peoples feeling and causing corruption among communities. Let us ponder what the Quran has to say about the subject at hand . “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 rumour] 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 no