Speech and Backbiting
338 questions
Is criticizing a Muslim player—such as describing him as squandering opportunities, ruining the team's performance, or having poor fitness—considered backbiting?
Is it permissible to mention the names of incompetent employees to a new manager who aims to reform the administration, along with their work habits and shortcomings?
What is the ruling on sleeping between 'Asr and Maghrib? And what is the ruling on saying "Ayshat Rajul" (a man's life) as a proverbial phrase meaning a woman's interference in a man's affairs?
What is the expiation for falling into doubts about the existence of God, and for backbiting and slandering people who cannot be seen now, after the age of twenty and with the resolve not to return to these sins?
What is your religious counsel to a person who has committed acts ranging from homosexual foreplay and sodomy, and masturbating with his sister, and sexually harassing others, and slandering, and bearing false witness, and who wishes to repent and purify himself and restore rights to their owners? And must he establish the hudud, or should he conceal himself?
Is it permissible to laugh at an unnamed person after mentioning their offensive actions, like a teacher laughing at some of his students' mistakes?
Is a wife's speech to her husband about harm inflicted upon her by his relatives considered backbiting, or is it in the category of stating the truth or confiding in her sister with a guarantee of confidentiality?
Is a person sinful for having ill thoughts about those who work alongside him, by saying: "Perhaps they are so, and they intend so," and is it obligatory for him to seek their forgiveness, and is ill-thought like backbiting in the obligation to seek forgiveness?
What is the reward for forgiving people before sleeping?
Is mentioning a person negatively in the media considered backbiting (Gheebah), and for whom is backbiting permissible?
How can deeds be accepted after repenting from backbiting the husband's family, given the ongoing animosity and their unwillingness to reconcile, and is it true that deeds are not accepted in this case?
What is the expiation for backbiting, gossip, and ridiculing religious scholars, rulers, singers, disbelievers, and the deceased? Is it obligatory to apologize to them despite the difficulty of reaching them?
Is it permissible to report someone who is absent from his work, receives his full salary, and at the same time works in another place during official hours?
Is the hadith narrated on the authority of Aisha – may Allah be pleased with her – in which she describes Sawdah and praises her by saying that she (Sawdah) granted her (Aisha) her day, then Aisha said: "However, she has some envy," authentic, and is this statement not considered backbiting?
Is it obligatory for a person to strive to erase the effect of a sin committed before puberty, such as issuing a fatwa without knowledge, and does the same ruling apply to backbiting and calumny committed before puberty?
Is saying, "My father lies to us, or deceives us, or occupies himself," if he went with my sisters and left me, considered backbiting?
Is it permissible to laugh when a comedy series mocks a certain character, and is that considered backbiting (Gheebah)?
Would it be considered backbiting or calumny if I talked with my sister about the negative aspects of a particular friendship and told her of my desire to distance myself from it, without directly mentioning the friend's flaws, and what is the expiation for that, and what is the supplication that protects me from bad companions and undesirable people?
What is the recompense for television program presenters who speak ill of people and delve into their private lives, and what is the ruling on working in or watching such programs?
Is a person held accountable for self-talk that includes mockery of others, such as saying "I am tall and so-and-so is short," as long as it was not uttered verbally?
Is what the woman said—about another woman seeking to marry a man, then seeking another young man after the first one's engagement—considered a slanderous accusation (qadhf)? And what is the ruling on that?
Is it obligatory to respond to a backbiter if it is known that the response will not benefit those who backbite and they will continue their backbiting? And what is the ruling if one is too shy to respond to them, despite being able to, and disapproves of that in their heart?
Is what was said about advising a Christian friend regarding her father-in-law, who converted to Islam and then ostracized his family, considered "backbiting"? And does embracing Islam mean ostracizing one's family?
Is the statement of the person who accused the girl of misconduct considered an accusation of unchastity (qadhf) or backbiting (gheebah), and what is the ruling on such an act?