Mentioning the places where backbiting is permissible.
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The Shaykh: Some scholars have gathered these in two lines of poetry, saying:
"Criticism is not backbiting in six cases: *** the complainant, the one seeking identification, and the one warning
the one openly committing open sinfulness, the one seeking a ruling, and the one *** seeking assistance in removing a wrong."
Six things, and under each of these characteristics, many branches enter, but these six characteristics gather what was permitted and excepted from forbidden backbiting. So the scholar-poet said:
"Criticism is not backbiting in six cases."
"Criticism is not backbiting in six cases: *** the complainant, the one seeking identification, and the one warning
the one openly committing open sinfulness, the one seeking a ruling, and the one *** seeking assistance in removing a wrong."
Six things, and under each of these characteristics, many branches enter, but these six characteristics gather what was permitted and excepted from forbidden backbiting. So the scholar-poet said:
"Criticism is not backbiting in six cases."
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