What is your opinion of a person who gives charity on behalf of everyone he backbited after he repented to Allah for that?
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The questioner : What is your opinion, O honorable Shaykh, of a person who gives charity on behalf of everyone he backbited after he repented to Allah for that?
The Shaykh : If a person repents from backbiting with sincere repentance, then part of the completion of his repentance is that he seeks forgiveness from the person about whom he backbited, if he knows that the person has learned that he backbited him. But if the person did not know, it is sufficient for him to seek forgiveness for him and to mention his good qualities in the place where he used to backbite him. For if a man does good to the one he backbited by praising him with what he deserves, good deeds erase bad deeds.
The questioner : Praise be to Allah.
The Shaykh : If a person repents from backbiting with sincere repentance, then part of the completion of his repentance is that he seeks forgiveness from the person about whom he backbited, if he knows that the person has learned that he backbited him. But if the person did not know, it is sufficient for him to seek forgiveness for him and to mention his good qualities in the place where he used to backbite him. For if a man does good to the one he backbited by praising him with what he deserves, good deeds erase bad deeds.
The questioner : Praise be to Allah.