The document defines backbiting as saying something about another person that they dislike, whether it is true or not. Backbiting has negative social effects as it destroys respect and love for others. It is prohibited in Islam according to both the Quran and hadith. The Prophet described serious punishments for backbiting, including that it is a worse sin than adultery. The document provides ways to resist backbiting such as guarding one's tongue and opposing backbiting when one hears it.

1. BACKBITING

2. Definition
• The Prophet (PBUH) defined backbiting when he said:
"Do you know what is meant by backbiting?" They
said, "Allah and His Messenger know best." He said, "To say
something about your brother which he dislikes." One
asked, "Even if what I say is true about my brother?" He
replied, "If such defects you say are true about him, then
you have backbitten him, and if he doesn't have what you
say, then you have committed slander against him."
(Related by Muslim, Abu Dawood, and Tirmidhi)

3. Social Effects
• When we look to the faults of others. The respect we have
for them in our hearts disappears and love towards them
is extinguished. therefore it is prohibited. Everyone has so
many faults if we are looking towards and spreading them
all would become enemies.

4. Ways to Backbiting:
• By tongue.
• Eyes, hands, and other movements.
• By writing.

5. According to Quran
• "And spy not, neither backbite against one another. Would
any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You
would hate it (so hate backbiting). And fear Allah. Verily
Allah is the One Who accepts repentance, Most Merciful."
(49:12)
• "Woe to every slanderer and back-biter!" (Surah Al-
Humazah, (104: 1)

6. According to Hadith
• " Backbiting is a worse sin than adultery."
• It is further explained in a saying of the Prophet (SAS), narrated
by Abu Sa'eed and Jubair in Bayhaqi: "Allah may forgive a person
if he/she repents after committing adultery. However, Allah will
not forgive the one who backbites, till his/her victim forgives
him/her.“
• The Prophet (SAS) during his Me’raj journey saw some people
who had nails made of red copper. They were tearing apart their
faces and chests with these nails. The Noble Prophet asked the
Angel Jibrail (AS) about them, He said, “They are being punished
because they used to eat people’s flesh in their lives, i.e. used
to backbite and defame others.
• Abu Hurayra (RA) narrates that the Noble Prophet (SAS) said,
“The killing of a Muslim by another unjustly, usurping others’
wealth or defaming other Muslims is totally forbidden (or
Haram).” (Sahih Muslim)

7. Ways to Resist Backbiting
• Guarding the tongue:
It is well known that whoever
guards his tongue make fewer mistakes.
Prophet (PBUH) said:
“Whoever gives me surety to safeguard what is
between jaws and what is between legs, I guaranteed for him
paradise.”

8. • The Virtue of opposing backbiting:
The person who listens to backbiting
is also a sinner unless he oppose with his tongue or by
heart. It is right of a Muslim to speak up and oppose
backbiting made against his Muslim brothers. To
defend against backbiting is not something minor.
Prophet (PBUH) said:
“ Who ever defends the honor of his brother
in his absence, will be entitled to ALLAH’s protection
from fire.”