Expiating for backbiting and informing the one who was backbitten
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If a person backbites someone, is it obligatory for him, if he repents from this backbiting, to seek forgiveness from him and inform him of it?
Answer:
Yes, it is obligatory for him to inform him of it and ask for his forgiveness, unless doing so would cause him anger or distress. In that case, do not inform him. Instead, praise him and speak well of him in the gatherings where you backbited him. This is because if you inform him, it will increase his enmity toward you, or increase his harm toward you, or something similar, thereby ruining the relationship between you and him. So, seek forgiveness for him and praise him in the gatherings where you backbited him. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If a person backbites someone, is it obligatory for him, if he repents from this backbiting, to seek forgiveness from him and inform him of it?
Answer:
Yes, it is obligatory for him to inform him of it and ask for his forgiveness, unless doing so would cause him anger or distress. In that case, do not inform him. Instead, praise him and speak well of him in the gatherings where you backbited him. This is because if you inform him, it will increase his enmity toward you, or increase his harm toward you, or something similar, thereby ruining the relationship between you and him. So, seek forgiveness for him and praise him in the gatherings where you backbited him. Yes.
Source
إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان 15-03-1439هـ — alfawzan.live (1:11:12)
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