What should I do about my mother's recurring backbiting, and is it sufficient to condemn it in my heart or sometimes to verbally caution her? Is it obligatory to seek forgiveness from everyone I have backbitten, or is it sufficient to pray for their forgiveness with a general supplication such as: "O Allah, forgive everyone I have backbitten"? Is there a better form of supplication, and is forgiveness all that should be prayed for?
The listener to backbiting is a partner in sin, and it is obligatory to denounce the backbiter gently. Denouncing by heart is not sufficient. Mentioning what happened with a specific person to someone who does not know him is not considered backbiting. The expiation for backbiting is by supplicating and seeking forgiveness if there is harm in seeking absolution from the one who was backbitten.
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