GHEEBAT (BACKBITING) AND ITS TREATMENT: 10 (a talk by Mufti Taqi Usmani DB)

 SITUATIONS IN WHICH GHEEBAT IS ALLOWED

 

However, it is permissible to do Gheebat in situations where the primary purpose is to save a person from coming to some sort of harm. For example, a person comes to you and asks that someone wants to marry his daughter, and asks you if you know what kind of person that man is. If you know something about that person which is important in relation to this marriage proposal, then if you tell that person about it with the intention that he and his daughter will be saved from coming to harm, then this is not included in Gheebat. Or, for example, if you know that someone is a fraudster and scams people into handing over their money to him, and you tell someone that beware of doing any financial transaction with this person as he is not very trustworthy, then this is also not included in Gheebat if the intention is to save the other person from harm. 

 

So, if a person needs to warn another person so that he doesn’t come to harm at someone else’s hands, then telling about someone’s actual bad traits or behaviour is not included in Gheebat.

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