6. He صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said: ‘لَا یَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّۃَ قَتَّاتٌ’ i.e. a tale-teller will not enter Paradise. (Sahih Bukhari, pp. 512, Hadees 6056)

Under the aforementioned last blessed Hadees, Hakeem-ul-Ummat Mufti Ahmad Yar Khan رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has stated: ‘قَتَّاتٌ’ is the one who secretly listens to the conversation of two groups that are against each other and then relays one’s conversation to the other in order to intensify the fight among them. If he dies with Iman, then he will not initially enter Paradise. He might enter Paradise later on. If he dies with Kufr [disbelief], then he will never enter Paradise. (Mirat-ul-Manajih, vol. 6, pp. 452)

Dear Islamic brothers! From the aforementioned blessed Ahadees, we have come to know that tale-telling cuts one’s Iman. One who creates discord among Muslims by tale-telling is most disliked by Allah Almighty. A tale-teller is the worst person. Tale-tellers will be gathered in the shape of dogs on the Day of Judgement. A tale-teller will be subject to the punishment of grave before the Hereafter and a tale-teller will not initially enter Paradise.

Alas! Whether it is a friends’ gathering or normal gathering after a religious Ijtima’, whether it is a wedding function or a gathering for condolence, whether someone speaks on the phone or meets someone, in short, if someone speaks for few minutes to someone and any sensitive person containing religious knowledge scans through his conversation, then he would perhaps prove dozens of elements of tale-telling in the conversation along with other sinful words in most of the gatherings. Now hold your breath and listen to an admonitory parable based on the destructions of tale-telling and make an intention to avoid it.

A house ruined due to tale-telling

It is stated on Dawat-e-Islami’s publishing department, Maktaba-tul-Madinah’s booklet ‘Gunahaun ki Nahusat’, page no. 71: A person sold his slave to someone and said to the buyer: ‘This slave has no flaws. However! He has the habit of tale-telling.’ The buyer bought him considering this flaw to be an inferior one. The slave started living at his service. One day, he went