Speech and Backbiting
338 questions
Is laughing at a teacher for unintentionally repeating a word considered "hamz and lamz" (slander and backbiting)?
Is saying, "So-and-so wears tight clothes, and I saw her underwear," considered forbidden backbiting (Gheebah)?
Are the acts of reviling, praying for scandal and revenge, and exposing the secrets of drug and human organ traffickers considered backbiting (namimah) or slander (gheebah), or do they fall under "whoever tracks the nakedness of his brother"?
How can one rid oneself of sins related to the rights of others without directly confessing them to the wronged person?
Is it considered a sin to turn off one's phone and distance oneself from one's mother for a day or two when feeling distressed by her, or during fasting, to avoid inappropriate speech or conversations that the questioner does not desire, knowing that she does not need him during those periods?
Is it permissible, when seeking the removal of an evil, to mention the details of that evil, even if it leads to backbiting?
Is relaying words genuinely spoken to another person with the intention of advising and warning them considered backbiting (namimah)? And is informing a girl of what her ex-boyfriend said about her, without her knowledge, considered backbiting or discord (fitnah)?
Is it permissible for the husband to use a recorded phone call, overheard without the speakers' knowledge, to prove the ill intent of his wife and her family?
What is the punishment for someone who slandered her colleague, tarnished her reputation falsely, accused her honor untruthfully, called her a "street girl," and photographed her without her knowledge? And is it permissible for the wronged person to do to her as she did to her?
Is the reward paid for relaying employees' words about their manager permissible or forbidden (halal or haram)?
Is reading people's negative comments about doctors on the internet considered backbiting (gheebah), which is forbidden?
How can one distinguish speech that is permissible to transmit, and when and how does one repent from the feeling of intending backbiting when unable to apologize?
Does speaking about someone with words they dislike in their presence, in a language they don't understand, count as backbiting?
Is it obligatory to condemn the backbiter every time he backbites, knowing that most of their speech is backbiting, and does the sin fall upon the silent one or the one who is in doubt as to whether the situation constitutes backbiting or not?
Is a son informing a parent that a sum has been transferred to one of their accounts in a usurious bank considered backbiting (gheebah)? And is it obligatory for the son to object, or would expressing gratitude be considered an act of disobedience (ʿuqooq)?
Is seeking forgiveness sufficient to atone for relaying unconfirmed news and causing a problem, without asking for forgiveness from the person to whom the news was relayed, for fear of escalating the problem?
Is saying "May God guide him" or "May God amend So-and-so" about someone in their absence, as an expression of disapproval of their actions, a form of backbiting?
Is a sports coach's posting a picture of a singer in unacceptable attire, with his comment, "I want one reason why people humiliate themselves in this way," considered mockery, backbiting, cursing, or slander that incurs sin, and is it better to avoid that in pursuit of correctness? And does the coach bear the sin of his followers' offensive comments that he may have incited, and is this post permissible and commendable because it is an enjoining of good and forbidding of evil?
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How should I deal with a gathering in which backbiting and slander are practiced, and what should I do to stop it?
How can one sincerely repent of backbiting entire peoples by describing them with derogatory characteristics, knowing that this backbiting was not recognized as such at the time it was uttered?
Is it necessary for the teacher to mention the student's characteristics and academic level to his father in front of the student so that it is not considered backbiting, keeping in mind that this might negatively affect the student, and given the teacher's and father's desire to exchange information confidentially to address weaknesses?
Is a person sinful for sitting in a place where people are being backbited, due to his need for internet, even though he has forbidden the evil but they did not respond, and he is preoccupied with his religious questions, not with their talk?
Is it permissible to criticize a person's performance, behavior, ideas, or content? Is this considered backbiting? And is it permissible to criticize or comment playfully?