1.   He should be stopped from tale-telling, admonished and have the evil of his action told to him.

2.   One shall have hatred towards him to please Allah Almighty, because Allah Almighty dislikes a tale-teller, and it is Wajib to have hatred towards the one who is disliked by Allah Almighty.

3.   One shall not develop an ill-assumption for his Islamic brother, i.e. the one who has been spoken about badly, because Allah Almighty has stated:

یٰۤاَیُّهَا الَّذِیْنَ اٰمَنُوا اجْتَنِبُوْا كَثِیْرًا مِّنَ الظَّنِّ٘-اِنَّ بَعْضَ الظَّنِّ اِثْمٌ

O believers! Avoid too many suspicions; indeed some suspicions become sin.^[1]

4.   Whatever has been said to you should not lead you into suspicion (i.e. you start researching and investigating about it] and argumentation, and you should not start considering it to be the truth. Allah Almighty has stated: ‘وَ لَا تَجَسَّسُوۡا’ Translation from Kanz-ul-Iman: And do not search for (hidden) faults.^[2]

5.   What you are stopping the tale-teller from, do not like it for yourself and neither mention his tale-telling ahead by saying that ‘he said this to me’. This way, you will become a tale-teller and backbiter, and what you stopped the other person from; you will end up doing it yourself.^[3]

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                 صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Dear Islamic brothers! Let us listen to further 9 ways of getting rid of tale-telling: