*Mentioning weaknesses of a husband to his wife.

   *Disclosing a person’s shortcomings in front of his brother to create dispute between both the brothers.

   *Mentioning the shortcomings of parents to children in order to distance them away from their parents.

The aforementioned examples will be deemed as tale-telling depending on the context and situation. 

Destructions of tale-telling

Millions of regret! The evil of tale-telling is spreading very fast in our society. Our predecessors possessed the passion of respecting Muslims immensely and every Muslim would preserve the dignity of the other Muslim. Alas! Now hatred has prevailed all around. Due to the accursed evil of tale-telling, every home seems to have become a battlefield. Thus, those who used to claim to sacrifice their lives for each other, those who used to preserve each other’s honour, those whose unity and friendship was given examples of, those who wouldn’t hear a single word against each other, those who would help each other out during testing times, those who used to persuade each other towards pious deeds, due to the curse of the accursed satanic act of tale-telling, such hatred develops among them that they don’t even want to see each other. Take it this way that the way fire burns and destroys homes, factories, buildings, jungles, villages and different things in hours, rather, in minutes, similarly, tale-telling is often found as the root cause for destroying the peace of generations, nations, households, families, departments, organisations and institutes; and the same cause is often found behind sowing the seed of hatred in the hearts.

For admonition, let’s listen to three blessed sayings of the Holy Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم:

Three blessed sayings of the Holy Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم regarding tale-telling:

   ۔1Backbiting and tale-telling cut faith the way a shepherd cuts a tree.