Is it permissible to impose a penalty on friends who backbite, requiring them to pay a sum to be given in charity?
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Question:
A group of friends established a condition that whoever backbites and whoever supports the backbiter must pay two riyals to the rest of the friends, or one of them takes this money and gives it in charity to the poor. What is the ruling? A group of friends established a condition among themselves that whoever backbites and whoever supports the backbiter must pay two riyals to the rest of the friends, or one of them takes this money and gives it in charity to the poor. Is that permissible?
Answer:
That means they are profiting from backbiting, taking money for it? They are required to forbid backbiting and prevent it in their gatherings, and to disapprove of the backbiters.
A group of friends established a condition that whoever backbites and whoever supports the backbiter must pay two riyals to the rest of the friends, or one of them takes this money and gives it in charity to the poor. What is the ruling? A group of friends established a condition among themselves that whoever backbites and whoever supports the backbiter must pay two riyals to the rest of the friends, or one of them takes this money and gives it in charity to the poor. Is that permissible?
Answer:
That means they are profiting from backbiting, taking money for it? They are required to forbid backbiting and prevent it in their gatherings, and to disapprove of the backbiters.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يجوز وضع عقوبة بين الأصدقاء على من يغتاب أن يدفع مبلغاً يتصدق به؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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