The Ruling on Speaking About People in One's Heart and Having Bad Opinions of Them
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Question:
The questioner asks: What is the ruling on thinking about people, or about a specific person, in my heart and mind, without sometimes speaking about them?
Answer:
As for speaking about people, uttering their faults, belittling them, backbiting them, and talebearing about them, this is a major sin, one of the major sins. As for you, in yourself or in your heart, for example, you have a bad opinion of a person, you think ill of a person, you think there is no good in him, this is bad opinion. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:[Al-Hujurat 49:12]. Avoid it. Have the best opinion of your brothers, have a good opinion of them, and do not think of them except good. Yes.
The questioner asks: What is the ruling on thinking about people, or about a specific person, in my heart and mind, without sometimes speaking about them?
Answer:
As for speaking about people, uttering their faults, belittling them, backbiting them, and talebearing about them, this is a major sin, one of the major sins. As for you, in yourself or in your heart, for example, you have a bad opinion of a person, you think ill of a person, you think there is no good in him, this is bad opinion. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:
O you who have believed, avoid much [negative] assumption. Indeed, some assumption is sin.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اجْتَنِبُوا كَثِيرًا مِّنَ الظَّنِّ إِنَّ بَعْضَ الظَّنِّ إِثْمٌ
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لقاء مفتوح 20-09-1435هـ — alfawzan.live (31:06)
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