Speech and Backbiting

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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?
What is the ruling on someone who refuses to delete a message sent to him by a friend, which contained secrets and whose sender requested that they not be divulged, and then asked for its deletion? Is he entitled to do so? And what are the consequences for someone who divulges a secret entrusted to him?
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?
What is the expiation for calumny (buhtan)?
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?
What is the ruling on one who laughed at a person out of forgetfulness, and does he owe anything regarding the rights of people?
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?
What is the ruling on eavesdropping on people who are talking about me?
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?
What is the ruling on a young man being exposed and defamed by his family before relatives due to an old sin from which he has repented, and is it permissible for him to sever ties of kinship with them?
Is the severance of ties with female cousins due to their backbiting considered a cutting off of kinship, which prevents entry into Paradise and incurs God's wrath?
Is talking about immodest women after they have left the place where they were present considered backbiting, and does this fall under the saying: "Whoever slanders will be afflicted"?
What are the forms of forbidden backbiting (Gheebah)? Does it include describing a building where someone works as old and not beautiful, or indirectly blaming someone for a problem that occurred, or mentioning a problem without details, or describing someone as obese when asked about them in comparison to another? What is the ruling on indirectly disapproving of heard backbiting?
Is it permissible to record and publish a video to expose the injustice of university professors, mentioning the names of the unjust professors or their actions that might reveal them, for the purpose of reform and drawing attention to the corruption of the university?
What is the ruling on doing these actions to passersby on the street for the sake of mockery and laughter, and what is the right of the passersby upon the doer?
Are you considered to have backbitten your brother when you described to your mother his method of advising his parents as "harsh," knowing that your mother knew you were referring to your brother?
Does the Hadith "Do not taunt your brother..." indicate that Allah will test the scoffer, even if after some time?
Is a person's statement about his friend, "He practices masturbation," considered an accusation of unchastity against a chaste person?
What is the legitimate Islamic solution for dealing with a wife who insults and slanders her husband's mother, and presents a different image from the one he knew her by, keeping in mind that he does not wish for the destruction of homes or the instigation of problems?
Is winking (a wink) permissible in Islam?
To what extent does a wife have the right to intervene in her husband’s spending on his family, especially if these expenses fall within the scope of luxuries or extravagance? And is her discussion of previous annoyances from her husband’s family considered backbiting (gheebah)?
Does shaving the beard during the day in Ramadan invalidate the fast?

Speech and Backbiting

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?

What is the expiation for calumny (buhtan)?

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?

What is the ruling on one who laughed at a person out of forgetfulness, and does he owe anything regarding the rights of people?

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?

What is the ruling on eavesdropping on people who are talking about me?

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?

What is the ruling on a young man being exposed and defamed by his family before relatives due to an old sin from which he has repented, and is it permissible for him to sever ties of kinship with them?

Is the severance of ties with female cousins due to their backbiting considered a cutting off of kinship, which prevents entry into Paradise and incurs God's wrath?

Is talking about immodest women after they have left the place where they were present considered backbiting, and does this fall under the saying: "Whoever slanders will be afflicted"?

Is it permissible to record and publish a video to expose the injustice of university professors, mentioning the names of the unjust professors or their actions that might reveal them, for the purpose of reform and drawing attention to the corruption of the university?

What is the ruling on doing these actions to passersby on the street for the sake of mockery and laughter, and what is the right of the passersby upon the doer?

Are you considered to have backbitten your brother when you described to your mother his method of advising his parents as "harsh," knowing that your mother knew you were referring to your brother?

Does the Hadith "Do not taunt your brother..." indicate that Allah will test the scoffer, even if after some time?

Is a person's statement about his friend, "He practices masturbation," considered an accusation of unchastity against a chaste person?

What is the legitimate Islamic solution for dealing with a wife who insults and slanders her husband's mother, and presents a different image from the one he knew her by, keeping in mind that he does not wish for the destruction of homes or the instigation of problems?

Is winking (a wink) permissible in Islam?

To what extent does a wife have the right to intervene in her husband’s spending on his family, especially if these expenses fall within the scope of luxuries or extravagance? And is her discussion of previous annoyances from her husband’s family considered backbiting (gheebah)?

Does shaving the beard during the day in Ramadan invalidate the fast?