to the wife of his master and said: ‘Madam! I feel sad that your husband does not love you at all. Now he intends to buy a female slave and enjoy with her and have complete separation from you. If you want, I can tell you of a tactic that would make his heart inclined towards you and he would start loving you.’ The wife asked: ‘What is that tactic?’ The slave replied: ‘When your husband goes sleep tonight, then take a razor and shave off some of his hair from his beard close to his neck. Then keep those hairs with you. I will then tell you the tactic.’ Then the slave went to his master and said: ‘O master! Today, I saw your wife mingling with a stranger and she is thinking of killing you. If you want the authenticity of what I am saying, then lie down tonight with your eyes shut and pretend as if you are asleep.’ This created doubt in his heart. He did exactly the same in the night time. His wife thought that he is asleep. Therefore, she came forward with the razor to shave off the hair of his beard. This turned husband’s doubt into certainty that his wife really wants to kill him. He immediately stood up, snatched the razor and killed the woman. When the relatives of the woman found out, they came running and killed the man. Then a fight broke out between both the families and around one hundred people got killed. (Ihya-ul-‘Uloom, vol. 3, pp. 195)

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب           صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Dear Islamic brothers! We have come to know that tale-telling is an extremely heinous epidemic. The habit of tale-telling ruins the peace of a home. Tale-telling distances people away. Tale-telling creates doubts and uncertainties among each other. Tale-telling creates hatred in the hearts for each other. Tale-telling removes trust from one another. As we heard in the aforementioned parable that a person considered tale-telling to be something very inferior, so its curse desolated his entire home. Due to the ill-effects of tale-telling, doubts were created among those who were living a happy and prosperous life. Due to tale-telling, both, the husband and wife died and such fight and massacre prevailed among their relatives too that we seek Allah’s refuge [اَلْاَمَان وَالْحَفِیْظ]. Therefore, refrain from tale-telling yourself as well as