What are the circumstances under which backbiting is permissible?
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Scholars have mentioned that backbiting is permissible in six cases: seeking justice, seeking help to change a wrong, seeking a (religious legal opinion), warning Muslims from the evil of a specific person, regarding someone who openly commits sin or innovation, and identifying someone by a well-known nickname if identification is difficult otherwise. Some have gathered these in two verses:
"Censuring is not backbiting in six: a complainant, an identifier, and a warner, And one who openly commits sin, and a seeker of a fatwa, and one who seeks help in removing a wrong."
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