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Ibn Abi Ahmed
12-19-2006, 06:40 PM
The Prophet(sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam)


من عيرأخاه بذنب لم يمت حتى يعمله

"Whosoever condemns his brother for a sin (he comitted) will not die untill he has comitted it(i.e the same sin) himself."


The hadeeth is referring to a sin. of which he person who committed has repented from. al-Fudayl(raheemahullaah) said: "The believer conceals (the sin of his brother) and advises (him), while the evildoer disgraces and condemns (him)."


This is what al-Fudayl has mentioned as being from the signs of advising and codemning - and it is that advising is linked to secrecy while condemning is linked to publicizing.


It used to be said: "Whosoever commands his brother (towards doing good) at the head of a gathering, then he has condemned him." Or it is something with this meaning.


The Salaf used to hate that commanding good and forbidding evil be done in this manner. Instead, they loved that it be done privately between the one commanding and the one being commanded, for indeed, this is from the signs of sincere advice. This is a since it is not the goal of the one who is advising to spread and publicize the faults of the person he is advising, rather his goal is only to put an end to the evil that he has fallen into.


As for spreading and exposing someone's faults, then that is from the things that Allaah and His Messenger, (sllallaahu `alayhi wa sallam), have forbidden. Allaah may He be Exalted says:


إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يُحِبُّونَ أَن تَشِيعَ الْفَاحِشَةُ فِي الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ وَاللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ

Indeed, those who like that immorality should be spread [or publicized] among those who have believed will have a painful punishment in this world and the Hereafter. And Allah knows and you do not know.



The ahaadeeth concerning the virtue of keeping the faults of others secret are many.



Some of the scholars would say to those who were commanding towards good: "Strive hard to conceal the faults of the sinners, for indeed, exposing their faults shows a weakness in Islaam. The thing that deserves the most to be concealed is ones faults."



It is for this reason that spreading someone's evil and indecent actions is linked to condemning. And they are both from the affairs of the evildoer, since it is not the goal of the evildoer to put an end to the fault nor that the believer avoids that fault or defect. Rather his only goal is to spread and publicize the defects found in hs believing brother, and to destroy his honor. So he initiates that and repeats it. And his intention is to belittle his belieing brother by exposing his defects and bad qualities to the people so that some harm can fall upon him in this world.



But as for the person that is sincerely advising, his aim in doing that (advising) is to eradicate the faults found in his believing brother and to help him avoid it. This is what Allaah the most High, has described His Messenger(sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam)with saying:




لَقَدْ جَاءكُمْ رَسُولٌ مِّنْ أَنفُسِكُمْ عَزِيزٌ عَلَيْهِ مَا عَنِتُّمْ حَرِيصٌ عَلَيْكُم بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ رَؤُوفٌ رَّحِيمٌ

And He described the believers with the characteristics of patience and mutual advising of one another towards mercy and compassion.



But what drives the evildoer to propagate (his brother's) evil and to disgrace him is force and harshness, his love for abusing his belieing brother, and (his desire) to inflict some harm upon him. These are the characteristics of the Devil - the one who beautifies disbelief, sin and disobedience to the children of Aadam so that due to it they may become amongst the dwellers of the Hellfire, as Allaah says:




إِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ لَكُمْ عَدُوٌّ فَاتَّخِذُوهُ عَدُوّاً إِنَّمَا يَدْعُو حِزْبَهُ لِيَكُونُوا مِنْ أَصْحَابِ السَّعِيرِ

Indeed, Satan is an enemy to you; so take him as an enemy. He only invites his party to be among the companions of the Blaze.




And he says after telling us the story of Iblees (the devil) when he was with the prophet of Allaah, Aadam, and the evil plot that he unleashed on him, such that it brought him to be cast out from paradise:




يَا بَنِي آدَمَ لاَ يَفْتِنَنَّكُمُ الشَّيْطَانُ كَمَا أَخْرَجَ أَبَوَيْكُم مِّنَ الْجَنَّةِ يَنزِعُ عَنْهُمَا لِبَاسَهُمَا لِيُرِيَهُمَا سَوْءَاتِهِمَا

O children of Aadam, let not Satan tempt you as he removed your parents from Paradise, stripping them of their clothing to show them their private parts.



So what a difference there is between one whose intention it is to advise (naseehah) and one whose intention it is to disgrace(fadeehah)! And no one confuses one of these with the other except someone who does not possess sound intellect.

taken from (al-Farq Bayn an-Naseehah wa al-Ta`yeer by Ibn Rajab al-Hanbalee)
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Nσσя'υℓ Jαииαн
12-19-2006, 06:46 PM
JazakAllah Khair brother.
May Allah forgive me if i've ever done it, Ameen.
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