What is obligatory for one who has backbitten a person and wants to repent?
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Question:
May Allah reward you. Finally, the questioner, Umm 'Abd al-Muhsin, asks in her last of her long questions, saying: How is seeking forgiveness done for the one we have backbitten?
Answer:
If a person backbites a Muslim, he must seek reconciliation with him and ask for his forgiveness, unless he fears that informing him will increase his anger and increase the severance between them. In that case, he does not inform him, but he praises him in the gatherings where he backbitten him, and he supplicates to Allah for him and seeks forgiveness for him. Likewise, if the one he backbitten has died, he seeks forgiveness for him, supplicates for him, and praises him. Yes.
May Allah reward you. Finally, the questioner, Umm 'Abd al-Muhsin, asks in her last of her long questions, saying: How is seeking forgiveness done for the one we have backbitten?
Answer:
If a person backbites a Muslim, he must seek reconciliation with him and ask for his forgiveness, unless he fears that informing him will increase his anger and increase the severance between them. In that case, he does not inform him, but he praises him in the gatherings where he backbitten him, and he supplicates to Allah for him and seeks forgiveness for him. Likewise, if the one he backbitten has died, he seeks forgiveness for him, supplicates for him, and praises him. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 6056- ما الواجب على من اغتاب إنساناً ويريد التوبة؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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