HOW TO PROTECT ONESELF FROM GHEEBAT (BACKBITING)? - 6 (a talk by Mufti Taqi Usmani DB)

 A person’s tongue also leads him to paradise

 

But it is also the same tongue which brings a person out of Kufr (disbelief) and leads him to Iman (faith). If Allah Ta’ala grants Taufeeq (enablement) to a Kafir of 70 years and he recites the kalimah “there is no god but God and Muhammad ﷺ is His Messenger” with his tongue, then in that one moment his destiny and final station moves from the lowest status of Hell to highest status of Paradise. What brought this about? This was brought about by his tongue. Allah Ta’ala has granted such power to a person’s tongue. There are so many examples when a person all his life in Kufr, in major sins, and right towards the end Allah Ta’ala granted him Taufeeq to recite the Kalimah of Shahadah soon after which he died. If he had died a few minutes before reciting the Shahadah, he would have gone to hell for all eternity. But because he died after reciting the Shahadah he went straight to paradise.