صَلُّوۡ اعَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                  صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Another reason for fight is tale-telling:

Dear Islamic brothers! Remember! Fights and quarrels do not break out themselves, but rather there is a reason behind them. When the cause exists, fights or quarrels begin. Another reason for fights and quarrels is tale-telling. Remember! To mention what someone has told you to someone else for creating disturbance is called tale-telling. (‘Umdat-ul-Qaari, vol. 2, pp. 594, Taht-al-Hadees 216)

Alas! No matter whether it is the gathering of friends or gathering after a religious Ijtima, a wedding ceremony or session of condolence, a meeting with someone else or talking to someone else on phone if we have a chance to talk to someone else and a sensitive person having Islamic knowledge looks into our conversation so perhaps he may prove dozens of tale-tellings along with other sinful words in majority of our gatherings. Listen to an admonitory parable about the destruction of tale-telling and make intention to abstain from it.

Home got destroyed due to tale-telling

On page 71 of a booklet ‘Curse of Sins’, published by Maktaba tul Madinah, the publishing department of Dawat-e-Islami it is stated: Once a person sold his slave to someone and said to him: This slave has no fault, except one, that is, he is a tale-teller. Considering the fault (minor) the buyer bought him and the slave started looking after him. One day the same slave went to the wife of his master and said: O ma’am! I am sorry to say that your husband does not love you; now he intends to buy a slave girl so that he can have a very good time with her and leave you completely. If you want, I can tell you a way by which he may turn towards you and may start loving you. The wife asked: What is the way? The slave said: Tonight when your husband falls asleep, get a razor and cut some hairs of his beard from the throat side and then keep the hair yourself, I will then tell you the method. After this the slave went to his master and started saying: Your highness! Today I have seen