HOW TO PROTECT ONESELF FROM GHEEBAT (BACKBITING)? - 4 (a talk by Mufti Taqi Usmani DB)

 Two great kalimah

 

Shariah demands that you have been granted this ‘machine’ (tongue) by Allah Ta’ala for free, and it is a very beneficial tool, so use it for acts which bring you benefit, and save it from Haraam acts. If a person wishes they can derive great benefit from their tongue. It has been narrated in a Hadith that when a person says Subhan Allah (سبحان اللّٰہ) or Alhamdulillah (الحمداللّٰہ) (all praise be to Allah) with his tongue, it fills half the balance of the scale with which his good and bad deeds will be weighed on the Day of Judgment. You hear this in the end session of teaching of Bukhari Sharif that there are two Kalimah which are loved greatly by Allah Ta’ala, which are very easy to say, but will weigh very heavily in the balance (on the Day of Judgment). These are;

سبحان اللّٰہ و بحمدہ سبحان اللّٰہ العظیم

 

So, if a person uses him tongue productively he can accumulate a huge number of good deeds. A person should keep doing Dhikr (Allah’s remembrance) sitting, standing, walking, all the time.