The Seven Deadly Sins and the Muslim Community
April 21, 2009
One of the most popular things for people to do nowadays in the Muslim community is to gossip. Subhan’Allah, many of the immature girls in our community do it constantly, not realizing they are ruining their account with Allah (SWT) and backbiting their fellow Muslimah. I’ve done a previous post on backbiting and gheebah, but in this post I wanted to emphasis the seriousness of one aspect of it by relating the following hadith:
The Prophet (SAW) stated, “Avoid the seven noxious things: associating anything with Allah, magic, killing one whom Allah has declared inviolate without a just case, consuming the property of an orphan, devouring usury, turning back when the army advances, and slandering chaste women who are believers but indiscreet” (Bukhari and Muslim).
The Prophet (SAW) warned us of seven of the worst crimes and amongst them are shirk, magic, and murder. However, if you continue reading the list, notice te final sin the Prophet (SAW) mentioned, “slandering chaste women who are believers.” Wronging your fellow Muslim sister with words is on the same list as shirk, magic and murder! Subhan’Allah, can you imagine standing in front of your Lord on the Day of Reckoning claiming to be a believer but having committed one of the most noxious sins on a daily basis, it’s unfathomable! Your deeds would be distributed to those whom you wronged, whether you murdered them or slandered them. O Muslim, please don’t gossip about one another, rather love and pray for another for we all know to whom we shall have to answer one day, to our Lord, the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth.
April 21, 2009 at 1:32 am
Gossipers are everywhere, especially those old aunties.
June 7, 2009 at 2:54 pm
It is important to seek forgiveness from anyone who may have been slandered, because it is the seventh destructive sin.
November 2, 2009 at 3:57 pm
what bothers me just as much about gossip is when people try to justify their gossip by baseless means, such as claiming that what they are saying/spreading is not in and of itself gossip to begin with.