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1. If one expresses the bad assumption to the person he had bad assumption about, there is a strong possibility that it will hurt his feelings and it is Haraam to hurt a Muslim’s feelings without permission from Shari’ah. The Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has said: ‘One who has upset a Muslim has upset me and one who has upset me, has displeased Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ.’ (Al-Mu’jam-ul-Awsat, vol. 2, pp. 386, Hadees 3607)
2. If a person expresses the bad assumption to someone in the absence of the person he had bad assumption about, it will become backbiting and backbiting of a Muslim is Haraam. It is mentioned in the Holy Quran:
وَ لَا یَغۡتَبۡ
بَّعۡضُکُمۡ بَعۡضًا ؕ
اَیُحِبُّ اَحَدُکُمۡ اَنۡ یَّاۡکُلَ لَحۡمَ اَخِیۡہِ مَیۡتًا
فَکَرِہۡتُمُوۡہُ ؕ
And do not backbite one another. Would anyone among you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? So you will dislike that!
[Translation of Kanz-ul Iman] (Part 26, Surah Al-Hujurat, Ayah 12)
Hujjat-ul-Islam, Imam Muhammad Ghazali رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه (who passed away in 505 AH) stated: ‘It is Satan who deceives a person into having bad assumption about Muslims. Indeed some assumptions are sins. And after a person has permanently had a bad assumption about someone, Satan
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