Backbiting - Islamic School System - Dawat-e-Islami

230 Backbiting – A Cancer in our SocietyForgiveness leads to Paradise without accountabilityForgiveness is a very lucrative virtuous act. Hence, the Noble Prophet صَ‏ َّ! االلهُ‏ تَعَالىٰ‏ ‏َلَيْهِ‏ وَاٰلِهٖ‏ وَسَلَّم hasstated: It will be announced on the Day of Judgment, ‘The one whose retribution ofrewards depends on the mercy of Allah ‏;عَزَّوَجَلَّ‏ should rise and enter Paradise.’ It will beasked, ‘For whom is this retribution of rewards?’ The herald will respond, ‘For thosewho were forgiving.’ Thus, thousands of people will rise and enter Paradise without anyaccountability. (Al-Mu’jam-ul-Awsaṭ liṭ-Ṭabarānī, vol. 1, pp. 542, Ḥadīš 1998) May we also have thepassion to forgive others, and be amongst the ones who enter Paradise without givingany accountability.Tū bay-ḥisāb bakhsh kay ĥayn bay-ḥisāb jurmDaytā ĥūn wasiṭaĥ Tujĥay Shāĥ-e-Ḥijāz kāGrant a pardon without a trial; as the list of offences is extensiveI seek my acquittal; for the sake of King of Makkaĥ & MadīnaĥAn enraptured demise for the one who refrainsShaykh Sa’dī هِ‏ الۡ‏ has cited the following anecdote in his Būstān-e-Sa’dī:A righteous and good mannered individual would never talk spitefully even if they werehis personal enemies. He would always utter good remarks whenever their referencewould come up in a conversation. After his death, someone saw him in a dream andinquired, ‘ ؟"َ‏ ِ اJ ُ Xَ َ َ َ (meaning, how did Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ‏ take your account?)’ Hearing thisquestion, his face lit up with a smile and he said in a sweet nightingale-like voice, ‘In theworld I always strived to refrain from making bad comments about others. The Nakīraynwere also not harsh in questioning me. ْ حَمْدُ‏ لِله عَزَّوَجَلَّ‏ ‏,اَل I was dealt pleasantly.’ (Būstān-e-Sa’dī,pp. 144)عَ‏ لَيْهِ‏ رَحمۡ‏ ‏َةُ‏ ال ل‏هَادِیNote: The booklet published by Maktaba-tul-Madīnaĥ entitled, ‘Cure for Anger’ will behighly beneficial to learn about anger.Sun lo nuqṣān ĥī ĥotā ĥay bil-ākhir un koNafs kay wāsiṭay ghuṣṣaĥ jo kiyā kartay ĥaynListen, for those, it is detrimental in the endTo satisfy their inner-self, whose anger is manifest