PERILS OF BACKBITING AT A GLANCE
* Many people, who appear to be devout, are also indulging in this grave sin. They are seen listening to, smiling at and nodding their heads in acceptance of backbiting. Since backbiting is so commonplace, no one turns a deaf ear that the backbiter, and so instead of remaining pious, becomes a sinner and stands in a line for the inferno of Hell.
Presented here are twenty perils of backbiting compiled from the Quranic verses, Ḥadīš narrations and the aphorisms of our Shuyūkh (pious predecessors). Glance at these and try to absorb as these may instill a fear in your heart.
1. Backbiting severs the faith.
2. It can cause a faithless end.
3. Furthermore, excessive backbiting is also a major cause for one’s supplication not being accepted.
4. Backbiting deprives one from the blessings of ṢSalāĥ and Saum. 5. It erases the good deeds.
6. It devours the good deeds.
7. Even if the backbiter repents, he will still be the last one to enter Paradise.
8. Backbiting is absolutely Harām, a major sin that condemns one to the inferno of Hell.
9. It is worse than fornication.
10. The one, who backbites against a Muslim, is tangled with the sin worse than fornication.
11. If backbiting is submerged in the ocean, the whole ocean would smell foul.
12. Backbiters will be made to eat the dead in Hell.
13. Backbiting is like eating the carcass of your dead brother.
14. It engenders torment in the grave.
15. On Layla-tul-Mi’rāj (the night of ascension), the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wa'sallam witnessed that the backbiter was eating his own flesh cut from the sides and was peeling his face and chest with his own copper nails.
16. Backbiters will be forced to eat their own flesh.
17. In addition, the backbiter will be resurrected looking like a dog on the Day of Judgment.
18. Backbiter will be monkey of the Hell.
19. Backbiter will be running a muck between the blazing infernos and boiling water seeking death. Even the Hell-dwellers will be sick of him.
20. The backbiter will be the first one to enter Hell.
2. It can cause a faithless end.
3. Furthermore, excessive backbiting is also a major cause for one’s supplication not being accepted.
4. Backbiting deprives one from the blessings of ṢSalāĥ and Saum. 5. It erases the good deeds.
6. It devours the good deeds.
7. Even if the backbiter repents, he will still be the last one to enter Paradise.
8. Backbiting is absolutely Harām, a major sin that condemns one to the inferno of Hell.
9. It is worse than fornication.
10. The one, who backbites against a Muslim, is tangled with the sin worse than fornication.
11. If backbiting is submerged in the ocean, the whole ocean would smell foul.
12. Backbiters will be made to eat the dead in Hell.
13. Backbiting is like eating the carcass of your dead brother.
14. It engenders torment in the grave.
15. On Layla-tul-Mi’rāj (the night of ascension), the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wa'sallam witnessed that the backbiter was eating his own flesh cut from the sides and was peeling his face and chest with his own copper nails.
16. Backbiters will be forced to eat their own flesh.
17. In addition, the backbiter will be resurrected looking like a dog on the Day of Judgment.
18. Backbiter will be monkey of the Hell.
19. Backbiter will be running a muck between the blazing infernos and boiling water seeking death. Even the Hell-dwellers will be sick of him.
20. The backbiter will be the first one to enter Hell.
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