2.   Mustaḥabb (recommended): Such as having good assumptions regarding a pious Muslim.

3.   Forbidden and haram: The forbidden type of assumption refers to having a bad opinion of Allah or assuming bad about Muslims.^[1]

Suspicions are a form of lying

As narrated by the Companion Abū Hurayrah رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ عَـنْهُ, the final Prophet of Allah صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم declared, “Save yourself from suspicion, as this is the worst of lies.”^[2]

The religious and worldly harms of bad assumptions

It is stated in Tafsīr Ṣirāṭ al-Jinān:

1.   If one holds bad assumption about someone and was to reveal it before them, this may hurt their feelings. Hurting a Muslim’s feelings without reason permitted by sharīʿah is haram.

2.   If the bad assumption was not mentioned in front of them, but behind their back instead, this will be considered backbiting a Muslim. This is also haram.

3.   Someone with a bad assumption of another, does not usually stop there.  Such a person begins searching for faults in the other, and this is also a sin.

4.   Bad assumptions give rise to dangerous diseases of the heart, such as hatred and envy.

5.   They can cause two blood brothers to hate one another and turn a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law. They can remove