Advice on guarding the tongue from slandering others, especially scholars
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: I hope you will be generous enough to offer advice to all the students of knowledge present and others, and to those who hear this fatwa, regarding guarding their tongues from the scholars and shaykhs by backbiting them and disparaging them, and what are the consequences of these matters?
Answer:
This is not permissible; it is a major sin among the major sins. The one who backbites... Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) said:[Al-Hujurat 49:12] Did you leave it? So what if the backbiting is of the scholars? Because this drives people away from the scholars, who are the heirs of the prophets. So this action is not permissible, and it contains a great sin.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: I hope you will be generous enough to offer advice to all the students of knowledge present and others, and to those who hear this fatwa, regarding guarding their tongues from the scholars and shaykhs by backbiting them and disparaging them, and what are the consequences of these matters?
Answer:
This is not permissible; it is a major sin among the major sins. The one who backbites... Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) said:
or backbite each other. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his brother when dead?
وَلَا يَغْتَب بَّعْضُكُم بَعْضًا أَيُحِبُّ أَحَدُكُمْ أَن يَأْكُلَ لَحْمَ أَخِيهِ مَيْتًا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، نصيحة لحفظ اللسان من الخوض في الأعراض وخاصة العلماء - الشيخ صالح الفوزان - سلسلة الفتن والنوازل (90) — youtube.com (0:11)
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