The harms of backbiting

Remember!

   *Backbiting can tear apart happy families

   *Backbiting can end years of friendship

   *Backbiting can break family ties

   *Backbiting destroys one’s faith

   *Backbiting is a cause for a bad ending

   *The Du’a of the one who backbites excessively is not accepted

   *The spiritual luminosity of prayer and fasting is extinguished through backbiting

   *Backbiting destroys a person’s good deeds

   *Backbiting burns one’s good deeds

   *Even if the backbiter repents, he will still enter Paradise last

   *The backbiter will be resurrected in the form of a dog on the Day of Judgement

   *The backbiter will become a monkey of the Hell-fire

   *The backbiter will be made to eat his own flesh in Hell

In the Qur’an, the backbiter has been likened to the one who eats the flesh of his dead brother, thus, Allah Almighty has stated in part 25, Surah Al-Hujurat, Verse 12:

وَ لَا یَغْتَبْ بَّعْضُكُمْ بَعْضًاؕ-اَیُحِبُّ اَحَدُكُمْ اَنْ یَّاْكُلَ لَحْمَ اَخِیْهِ مَیْتًا فَكَرِهْتُمُوْهُؕ-

Translation of Kanz-ul-Iman: do not backbite one another; would any one amongst you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? So you will not tolerate this.

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                                                                 صَلَّى اللّٰهُ  عَلٰى مُحَمَّد