Apply a Hadith or Aaayah in your life - 1 Per Day.

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"Verily Allaah is with the patient." [Qur'aan, Surah 8, Verse 46]

 

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أَيُحِبُّ أَحَدُكُمْ أَن يَأْكُلَ لَحْمَ أَخِيهِ مَيْتاً فَكَرِهْتُمُوهُ​

Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother You would hate it"​

Just as you hate eating the flesh of a dead person, on account of your nature; so hate backbiting, on account of your religion. The latter carries a punishment that is worse than the former. This Ayah seeks to discourage people from backbiting and warns against it.

I would like to add a few points I learn't when I was studying this ayaah

In the ayaah it لَحْمَ أَخِيهِ مَيْتاً "dead brothers flesh"
The reason for this is a dead person is defenseless and he doesn't know who is talking about him in the same way whena person backbites about someone they are not there to defend themselves and nor do they know that someone backbited about him.

Rulings regarding backbiting

- Backbiting that doesn't offend a person much like saying something bad about a persons house is a minor sin saying something that a person would find very offensive is a major sin.

- Someone who listen to another person backbiting will also partaking in the sin if he doesn't try to put a stop to it. If he can't do that he should walk away from the gathering.

- If the person someone has backbited about passes away one should ask for forgiveness from his inheriters and do istighfaar on his behalf. (backbiter should do istighfaar for dead person, so that he is doing something good to repay him)

- It is not permissible to backbite about a child, an insane person or a kaafir.

- Backbiting through actions is unpermissible ( imitating someones action).

Hope people will benefit from this.
May Allah give us all the tawfeeq to stop backbiting Ameen!