BACKBITING & SLANDER - AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE
It is quite often seen and heard people indulging in unnecessary backbiting and slander about their own fellow beings. Let us look into what the holy Qaran and Hadiths guide us in this regard:
And why did you not, when you heard it, say? "It is not right of us to speak of this: Glory to God, this is a most serious slander" (Quran 24:16)
This is the Book, in it is guidance sure, without doubt, to those who fear God. (2:2)
O you who believe! Avoid much suspicion, in deeds some suspicions are sins. And spy not neither backbite one another. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You would hate it (so hate backbiting). And fear God, verily, God is the one who accepts repentance, Most Merciful. (49: 12)
Behold, you received it on your tongues, and said out of your mouths things which you had no knowledge; and you thought it to be a light matter, while it was most serious in the sight of God (24: 15)
Say to My servants that they should only say those things that are best, for Satan does sow dissensions among them, for Satan is to man an avowed enemy. (17:53)
Hadiths: Let's see what Prophet Muhammad said about Backbiting in the hadiths. God states in the Quran - You have indeed in the Messenger of God an excellent pattern of conduct. (33:21)
The definition of Backbiting & Slander
Prophet Muhammad said :"Do you know what backbiting is? |