The Top 5 Misconceptions of Backbiting and How To Respond To Them

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Osman said:
With regards to backbiting Non-Muslims being permissible, I'm afraid that doesn't sit too well with my conscience but of course, anything in Islam must be proven from the Qur'an and/or the authentic Sunnah. Has Prophet Muhammad (Sallallaahu 'alayhi wa-sallam) been known to use the word 'brother' in reference to Non-Muslims as well? Or did he only use the word to describe Muslims?
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Are we not all brothers and sisters in humanity? In you opinion, are we all not "children" or the creation of God/Allah?
 
ATHEISTofPEACE said:
Are we not all brothers and sisters in humanity? In you opinion, are we all not "children" or the creation of God/Allah?
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Absolutely but I am referring back to the hadith when Muhammad (peace be upon him) defined backbiting as saying something about your brother which he does not like. I am wondering whether Muhammad himself was known to use the word brother to denote Non-Muslims as well as Muslims. Personally, I don't see it as morally right to backbite anyone, regardless of their beliefs anyway.
 
10. Innama almu/minoona ikhwatun faaslihoo bayna akhawaykum waittaqoo Allaha laAAallakum turhamoona
Translation
10. The believers are nothing else than brothers (in Islâmic religion). So make reconciliation between your brothers, and fear Allâh, that you may receive mercy.
Quran 49 10
 
Umar^111 said:
10. Innama almu/minoona ikhwatun faaslihoo bayna akhawaykum waittaqoo Allaha laAAallakum turhamoona
Translation
10. The believers are nothing else than brothers (in Islâmic religion). So make reconciliation between your brothers, and fear Allâh, that you may receive mercy.
Quran 49 10
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That says the believers are brothers but does not say brothers are believers. Like an isolice triangle is a triangle but a triangle is not an isoclies triangle. Ya know what I mean?
 
ATHEISTofPEACE said:
That says the believers are brothers but does not say brothers are believers. Like an isolice triangle is a triangle but a triangle is not an isoclies triangle. Ya know what I mean?
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All bananas are yellow but not all yellow things are bananas? That kinda thing? :D
 
Narrated by Abdullah bin Umar


Transmitted by Sahih Bukhari
Allah's Apostle said, "A Muslim is a brother of another Muslim, so he should not oppress him, nor should he hand him over to an oppressor. Whoever fulfilled the needs of his brother, Allah will fulfill his needs; whoever brought his (Muslim) brother out of a discomfort, Allah will bring him out of the discomforts of the Day of Resurrection, and whoever screened a Muslim, Allah will screen him on the Day of Resurrection." [Vol 3: #622]



Narrated by AbuHurayrah


Transmitted by Muwatta
Allah's Messenger (Sal-allahu-aleihi-wassallam) said "Beware of suspicion. Suspicion is the most untrue speech. Do not spy and do not eavesdrop. Do not compete with each other and do not envy each other and do not hate each other and do not shun each other. Be slaves of Allah, brothers." [47.15]
Narrated by AbuHurayrah


Transmitted by Sahih Bukhari
Allah's Apostle (Sal-allahu-aleihi-wassallam) said, "If a man says to his brother, 'O Kafir (disbeliever)!' Then surely one of them is such (i.e., a Kafir)." [Vol 8:#125.1]
 
Then I would say that it's not within the spirit of Islam to backbite Non-Muslims even if there is no explicit prohibition on it. I don't think Muhammad (peace be upon him) ever did so and Allah tells us in the Qur'an that in him we have a most excellent example.
 
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Osman said:
I wonder where the rule on backbiting stands in relation to news reporting...
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I wouldn't know, but I imagine that the British tabloids would be way out of line... :D

Peace
 
ATHEISTofPEACE said:
That says the believers are brothers but does not say brothers are believers. Like an isolice triangle is a triangle but a triangle is not an isoclies triangle. Ya know what I mean?
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There are some scholars who consider the use of the word brother in this case to be general and referring to mankind generally, not just Muslims.

Anyway, even if backbiting referred specificity to talking about non-Muslims that doesn't mean one is justified in speaking badly, unjustly and unkindly about non-Muslims.

Allah commanded us in the Quran to deal kindly and justly with non-Muslims who do not fight us.
 
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it is also the biggest and most convenient weapon in hands of deviants to silence their critics.
 
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doorster said:
it is also the biggest and most convenient weapon in hands of deviants to silence their critics.
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If somebody wishes to criticise someone, they should do it to their face though, should they not?
 
walaiukum salam wa rahamat Allah
how does one gather support in order to get a monstrous person isolated? goes to him and says o loony I've come to criticise you?

or in case of websites; does one write to hamza hanson, munajjid and shiachat com? and they would simply cease distorting Quran and Sunnat?
 
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Okay I have not read the entire thread, so forgive me if this question has been answered but...

Is is considered gossip/backbiting if no names are mentioned and its so ambiguous to the point where you cannot even suspect who it might be? I'm just wondering because my friend does this to ask advice from me on how to handle a situation.
 

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