HOW TO PROTECT ONESELF FROM GHEEBAT (BACKBITING)? - 16 (a talk by Mufti Taqi Usmani DB)

 A beginner should not engage even in permitted Gheebat

 

The person who had asked this question had just started on the path to self-improvement and had just started undergoing Tazkiyah (purification of inner-self). So, Hadhrat Thanvi RE replied;

 

“Only a person who has completed his Tazkiyah should ask this question. A beginner on this path should not do Gheebat even in situations where it is permitted.”

 

It means that a person who has just started on the path to self-improvement, who still has to get his Nafs (inner-self) cleaned, should not do Gheebat even in situations in which it is allowed to do so. This is what Maulana Yaqoob Nanotvi (may Allah have mercy on him) have explained with an example that if a paper has been folded to one side, if you try to straighten it you will not be able to do it. The way to straighten it is to bend it in the opposite direction for a short while. Then it will become straight. Similarly, people’s Nafs is used to committing Gheebat indiscriminately. If a person wants to stops committing Gheebat in situations in which it is Haraam to do so, then initially he also needs to stop committing Gheebat in situations in which it is permitted to do so. Only after he has practiced it over a period of time, then his Nafswill be tamed enough to do Gheebat in situations where it is permitted, and not when it is Haraam. May Allah Ta’ala grant us the determination to act on this. Aameen

 

و آخر دعوانا ان الحمد الّلٰہ رب العٰلمین 

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