from the society and peace can prevail all around. The reason because tale-telling is a grave evil, that’s why they have blessed us with Madani pearls to follow for the removal of this evil. As a persuasion, let us listen to few methods to refrain from tale-telling.

Six methods to get rid of tale-telling

Hujjat-ul-Islam, Imam Muhammad Bin Muhammad Ghazali رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has stated: The one to whom someone tell-tales or he is told that someone said so and so about you, or he has done this against you, or he is conspiring to make your matters worse, or is looking forward to having friendship with your enemy, or is trying to make your circumstances worse, or such kind of other things are said, then that person falls under six things:

1. One shall not authenticate a tale-teller because he is a Faasiq [one who commits sin openly] and a Faasiq’s testimony is unacceptable. Allah Almighty has stated:

یٰۤاَیُّهَا الَّذِیْنَ اٰمَنُوْۤا اِنْ جَآءَكُمْ فَاسِقٌۢ بِنَبَاٍ فَتَبَیَّنُوْۤا اَنْ تُصِیْبُوْا قَوْمًۢا بِجَهَالَةٍ

O believers! If any sinner brings you some news, so (you must) investigate it, in case you unknowingly cause suffering to some people.

[Kanz-ul-Iman (Translation of Quran)] (Part 26, Surah Al-Hujurat, Ayah 6)

2. One shall stop him from tale-telling, explain him and reveal the evil of his action [tale-telling] in front of him.

3. One shall have hatred towards him to please Allah Almighty because Allah Almighty dislikes a tale-teller and it is Wajib to have hatred towards the one who is disliked by Allah Almighty.

4. One shall not develop an ill-assumption for his Islamic brother, i.e. the one who has been backbitten, because Allah Almighty has stated:

یٰۤاَیُّهَا الَّذِیْنَ اٰمَنُوا اجْتَنِبُوْا كَثِیْرًا مِّنَ الظَّنِّ٘-اِنَّ بَعْضَ الظَّنِّ اِثْمٌ