The Shaykh’s mention of the places where backbiting is permissible.
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The Shaykh : Some scholars have summarized these in two lines of poetry, saying:
"And speaking ill is not backbiting in six cases: *** the aggrieved, the one seeking a ruling, and the one warning
against open sinfulness, the one asking for a fatwa, and the one *** seeking help in removing a wrong."
Six matters... in each of these characteristics there are many branches, but... these six characteristics are what has been permitted and excepted from forbidden backbiting. So the scholar-poet said, "Speaking ill is not backbiting in six cases", the first of which is...
"And speaking ill is not backbiting in six cases: *** the aggrieved, the one seeking a ruling, and the one warning
against open sinfulness, the one asking for a fatwa, and the one *** seeking help in removing a wrong."
Six matters... in each of these characteristics there are many branches, but... these six characteristics are what has been permitted and excepted from forbidden backbiting. So the scholar-poet said, "Speaking ill is not backbiting in six cases", the first of which is...