Is an incessant insulter to be treated the same as a backbiter, and does he bear the sin of both backbiting and insulting?
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Slandering a Muslim is forbidden. Backbiting is mentioning a Muslim with what he dislikes in his absence. A person cursing another in his presence is not considered backbiting.
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