HOW TO PROTECT ONESELF FROM GHEEBAT (BACKBITING)? - 7 (a talk by Mufti Taqi Usmani DB)

 If you want, you can accumulate a great amount of good deeds for the Aakhirah (Hereafter) with your tongue. You can do this by continuing to recite the Holy Qur’an, keep doing Dhikr, reciting Tasbeehat, keep saying Allah Ta’ala’s praises, and keep doing Shukr (expressing gratefulness to Allah Ta’ala). You can accumulate good deeds by making other people happy because saying words that make one’s Muslim brother happy is also a Sadaqah (charity). 

 

On the other hand, if one uses one’s tongue in a wrong way, it can cause great harms as well, as per the Hadith I had recited above that the thing that will make people fall face down in Hell will be the words that come out of their mouth. It is because it is the tongue that lies, the tongue that commits Gheebat (backbiting), the tongue which hurts other people’s feelings, the tongue that says inappropriate things, and all of these acts can make people fall face down in Hell. 

 

So, when the benefits of tongue are great, and the harms of tongue are great, then the path of safety and deliverance is that a person uses his tongue very very carefully. That is why Hadhrat Thanvi (may Allah have mercy on him) says that before you say anything, reflect on whether what you are going to say will lead you to Hell or Paradise.

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