What is the difference between backbiting and slandering

The scholars have mentioned, including backbiting of the oppressor, seeking help in lifting evil, returning sins to reform, from it also like advice from the counselor in getting married and depositing trust, likewise, the witness, the mufti, and the judge was wounded, if he was asked about them, he might mention what he knows about the injustice and eligibility for fatwas and the judiciary, the immoral or openly committed doing something that is not backbiting with regard to that special work.

Some scholars said that there is no backbiting in religion because he criticized what God Almighty had criticized, so mentioning him with sins and criticizing it in them permissible, based on what was narrated that the Messenger PBUH made a woman was mentioned to him and increased her prayer and fasting, but she performed her neighbors with her tongue, that he said: There is no good in her, she is in Hell , also a woman was mentioned in front of him about another one with something more miserly, then He said there is no good at her.

Al-Nawawi As-Samarra'i: , pp. The first: the grievance, so the oppressed person may submit a grievance to the Sultan, the judge, and others who have a mandate or ability to do justice to him from his oppressor, as he says: someone oppressed me.

The second: seeking help to change the evil and return the sins to what is right, so he says to those who hope that he will be able to remove the evil: someone does such-and-such, then rebuke him on his behalf.

The third: the referendum. He says: To the Mufti: My father, my brother, my husband have oppressed me, or someone by something. Fifth: the person is openly public about his immorality or heresy, such as openly drinking alcohol, confiscating people, taking licks, and others. Sixth: Definition, If a person is known by the title Al-A'amash, the lame and the deaf, the blind, and the squalid, and others, it is permissible to introduce them to that. The scholars differed on a topic.

If the person is in front of you, as you mention him badly, is this part of backbiting? Most probably, it is not backbiting, but it is as an insult, mentioning a person with evil in front of you, this is not backbiting, but it is disobedient at its level, that it is a cursing of slander against people in their absence, such as adultery with them in their presence, in their presence, we are as hypocritical to them, in their absence we eat their honors backbiting, this is the matter of the weak people..

Backbiting according to the mandatory verdicts is forbidden; there is an obligation, there is a confirmed Sunnah, an uncertain Sunnah, it is desirable and permissible. Muslims who are not students of knowledge think that the major sins are adultery, murder, theft, but backbiting is also among the major sins because they disintegrate society, weakening its cohesion, weaken its unity, creates enmity and hatred among people in one society. What we see clearly is that most of the Islamic community councils are backbiting councils and more than that.

Backbiting is like the fruit of the councils, wherever it is and at the highest levels of society, even the educated ones. On the authority of Abu Hurayra Speight: , pp. Someone might say: This backbiting is widespread in large size, rather it is as a general affliction, people are all as well? So we say: The spread of this sin and its general nature to people does not eliminate it as a major, so great sin is great, whether it is greater or less, narrowed or expanded, smaller or larger.

Muslim scholars are agreed and unanimously agreed that the insistence on backbiting makes it one of the greatest sins. The scholars said there is disbelief without blasphemy, as well as there is backbiting without backbiting.

You may criticize a house that it is small, or this color is not appropriate, this is from backbiting, but it is much lesser than criticizing without evidence someone who benefits people with it than to stab a person whom people benefit most, as this is very big backbiting.

Also, they may exceed the limit of people in backbiting,reaching their honor, a breaching of their social reputation, that this falsehood is like itself and reality, injustice is his, which it is the falsehood that the Messenger PBUH forbade. That is, to speak with what you do not know, to distribute accusations without evidence, without benefit,without obligation, this is one of the most severe types of backbiting, as if there is disbelief without disbelief there is backbiting without backbiting, to criticize a color for paint or a type of cloth, this embarrasses the owner, how did you buy it in this, not the good color?

This is backbiting, as for you to criticize a person who benefits people without evidence, just because you want to destroy others to stand on their body parts, this is an attribute of some people, building his glory on the ruins of people, He alone is perfect, and everything else is deficient, any person is mentioned in front of him he may stab him, stigmatizes his religion, ridicule his morals, doubts his intentions, makes him in the eyes of the people as a notorious person.

Everything belonging to a Muslim is inviolable for a Muslim; his honor, his blood, and property. The honor, as the general public understands, is related to the chastity of the woman. No, the show in a person is the subject of praise and slander in it, for a man has an honor, his honor is his reputation, if you slander his honor, you stab his reputation, then you backbite him, so every Muslim is forbidden to a Muslim whose blood, money and honor are forbidden for him.

On the authority of Abu Huraira Speight: , pp. He does not wrong, desert, or despise him. Piety is found here pointing three times to his chest. Despising his Muslim brother is enough evil for any man to do. This hadith included many verdicts and great benefits for achieving the noble Islamic goal and protecting it from all missteps and defects so that Islamic brotherhood becomes a clear truth, not just words that people are calling.

Ibn Hajar al-Haythami Kister: , pp. The intention is not to leave the work with the assumption that the judgments are most often attached to it, but rather the intention is to let the thought be fulfilled as a result of which the opinion is harmful to what falls in the heart without evidence, that is because the first suspicions are as risks that cannot be pushed, what he cannot do is not required of.

To insult him without justification, to no benefit, out of love for destroying others and standing on their rubble, this is the matter of the fools, like the hypocrites. As for immorality, he always searches for flaws, searches for deficiencies, grows them up, spreads them out, as he is comfortable with them.

Some of the Imamate jurists went on to say that the backbiting of every Muslim is forbidden, as this was adopted by al-Ardebili the investigator, Sheikh Nasser Makarem Al-Shirazi, as well as saying Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, it is obligatory in it - if there is no legitimate reason - Mr. The second martyr says:. He was negligent in acts of worship, but he became lukewarm and afflicted with what afflicts us all, which is a lack of patience, so he mentions himself of slander, as he is intended that he defame others, that he praises himself by imitating the righteous in blaming themselves, so that he is a repugnant hypocritical, approving himself, combining three immoralities, thinking that, with his unknowing, that he is one of the righteous who are forgiving from backbiting.

This is how Satan plays with the people of ignorance if they work in knowledge and work without mastering the path, so he follows them and frustrates with his schemes their work, laughs at them, and mocks them.

To say that such-and-such happened by someone and he is afflicted by such-and-such. Indeed, some assumption is sin. And do not spy or backbite each other. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You would hate it so hate backbiting. And fear Allah; indeed, Allah is Accepting of repentance and Merciful.

Often times we backbite and gossip about others without thinking much of it. In example, an employee make false accusation toward another employee with purpose to make this another employee getting fired. Re: Backbiting and slandering Describing someone in simple terms is not haram; there is nothing wrong with saying "they are tall" or "they have brown hair". Backbiting is when you say something like "ug, did you see their hair?

It looks like a rats's nest! Re: Backbiting and slandering. Re: Backbiting and slandering Do you know any ways to avoid this,in the environment that I live in, 1 of every 2 people backbite its so common its like breathing, sometimes I feel like I need a way to avoid it even being surrounded by people who do.

Re: Backbiting and slandering I was backbitten and slandered quite often because of what happened to my mother. All my friends know I am a good person and don't deserve it. Even strangers know right away sometimes.

Do you know any ways to avoid this,in the environment that I live in, 1 of every 2 people backbite its so common its like breathing, sometimes I feel like I need a way to avoid it even being surrounded by people who do.

Last edited by talibilm; at AM. Do you know what is backbiting? They the Companions said: Allah and His Messenger know best. Thereupon he the Holy Prophet said: Backbiting implies your talking about your brother in a manner which he does not like. It was said to him: What is your opinion about this that if I actually find that failing in my brother which I made a mention of?

If that failing is actually found in him what you assert, you in fact backbite d him, and if that is not in him it is a slander. O you who believe! Avoid much suspicion; indeed some suspicions are sins. And spy not, neither backbite one another. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You would hate it so hate backbiting. And fear Allah. Asalaam oalaikum brother Shoeb, Thank you for guiding me to your article on slander. This is a termite that is eating away at the muslim Ummah.

Thank you for bringing it to light.