Book Name:Chughli Ka Azaab-o-Chughal Khor Ki Mozammat
Imam Nawawi رَحْمَةُ اللهِ عَلَيْه has narrated: “Tale telling is to mention something about someone to other people, with the intention of harming him.”[1]
“The definition of tale-telling is conveying someone’s matter to another person in order to cause turmoil among them.”[2]
The bad outcomes of tale-telling
Dear Islamic brothers! We learned that listening to someone’s conversation and relaying it to another person with the intention of creating conflict and argument, among them is called tale-telling. This epidemic is prevalent in our society today. Muslims of the past had the passion of respecting Muslims embedded into their hearts, and every Muslim used to protect the dignity of their brothers and sisters. Nowadays, hatred has spread all around instead.
Every home has now become a battlefield, due to the amount of tale-telling we involve ourselves in. Those who used to claim to sacrifice their lives for each other, those who used to protect each other’s dignities, those whose friendships and unity were exemplary, those who would not bear to listen to a single word against one another, those who would not eat without one another, those who would stand by one another in difficult times, those who used to encourage each other to perform virtuous actions, we instead find that hatred comes between them due to an accursed Satanic action like tale-telling; such hatred, that they both can’t even bear to see each other anymore. The way fire burns and destroys houses, factories, companies, warehouses, jungles, villages and different things in hours, rather in minutes; similarly, the destructions of tale-telling are normally seen as the reason behind sowing the seed of hatred among generations, nations, homes, families, and in every field of life.
Tale-telling is the same very reason for grudges between teachers and students, arguments between husband and wife, family members debating and arguing with one another, business partners becoming each others enemies, arguments between landlords and tenants, problems at the