Akhlaaq of the Ummati

by Mirza Yawar Baig

Something which destroys all the good work of bringing hearts together as surely as the hidden work of termites in the massive beams of a roof will suddenly bring it down on the heads of the occupants of that house. This is such a major danger that Allah(SWT) explained it with a graphic example. Hujuraat 49: 11. O you who believe! Let not a group mock another group, it may be that the latter are better than the former; nor let (some) women mock other women, it may be that the latter are better than the former, nor defame one another, nor insult one another by nicknames. How bad is it, to insult one's brother after having Faith? And whosoever does not repent, then such are indeed Zalimun. 12. O you who believe! Avoid suspicion, indeed some suspicions are sins. And don’t spy, and don’t backbite one another. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You would hate it (so hate backbiting). And fear Allah. Verily, Allah is the One Who accepts repentance, Most Merciful.