Tale-telling separates people. Tale-telling creates doubts and uncertainties among each other. Tale-telling creates hatred in the hearts for each other. Tale-telling removes trust for one another. A person who considered it to be insignificant had his life taken because of it. 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 a fight and massacre occurred amongst their relatives, which led to over 100 people dying. We seek Allah’s refuge [اَلْاَمَان وَالْحَفِیْظ]. Therefore, refrain from tale-telling yourself as well as encourage others to refrain from it too. May Allah Almighty protect us from quarrels, fights, tale-telling and all sins!

اٰمِیْن بِجَاہِ النَّبِیِّ الْاَمِیْن صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم 

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                 صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

A tale-teller can never be truthful

Dear Islamic brothers! Remember! Whenever anyone comes to us and says something negative about someone, for example, so and so is a cheater, so and so breaches promises, so and so has spoken ill of you etc., then we should not blindly believe at all in what he says. Because due to backbiting and tale-telling, he has become a fasiq, i.e. one who commits sin openly, and news relayed by a fasiq should not be believed. If we study the biographies of the righteous predecessors, we see their practice of not immediately believing any negative news about someone. Instead, they would deal with the situation tactfully, offering their wisdom and advice. Let us go through four instructive parables in this regard.

1. A tale-teller can never be a truthful person

Hujjat al-Islam, Sayyiduna Imam Muhammad Ghazali رَحْمَةُ اللهِ عَلَيْه has narrated:

Imam Muhammad bin Shihaab Zuhri رَحْمَةُ اللهِ عَلَيْه was once sitting with the king, Sulayman Bin Abdul Malik. Meanwhile, a person came. In an unpleasant manner, the king said to him, ‘I came to know that you have said such and