Do not be termites

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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers.
Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions.
Peace be upon him.
From now on, my brothers and sisters, I want to talk to you about something extremely important today.
Important in terms of character as well as important in terms of how it affects us Muslims, how it affects the Ummah.
It's a very critical thing because today we are living in a world where we are oppressed.
And which is, we are living in societies where we are full of strife and full of internal conflicts.
And the reason for that is very simple, which Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, mentioned in the Quran.
If you read Surah Al-Hujurat, which I strongly recommend, all of you must read Surah Al-Hujurat.
And memorize Surah Al-Hujurat.
Because Surah Al-Hujurat is the Surah of Akhlaq.
It is the Surah of manners. It is the Surah of Tarbiyah and Taskiyah.
And it is the Surah of manners.
It is the Surah of manners.
There is a book of mine on that, on the relevant ayat of Surah Al-Hujurat.
So read that also.
I will put the link to that book in this reminder at the bottom.
Among the advice that Allah, peace be upon him, gave us and among what he commanded in Surah Al-Hujurat,
Allah, peace be upon him, said,
Allah said,
Allah said,
And then Allah said,
If there is any conflict.
Allah, peace be upon him, said,
Allah said,
Allah said,
Allah said,
I said, Allah said,
Resolve conflicts between your brothers.
Also in Surah Al-Hujurat, Allah, peace be upon him, strongly prohibited and made haram
Ghiva and Namimah.
Ghiva is backbiting.
It is actually saying something.
It is actually saying something about somebody which is negative.
They asked Rasulullah, peace be upon him, they said,
Ya Rasulullah, but what I am saying is the truth.
Right?
You might say, I say something negative about my brother, but that is a fact.
He is like that.
Rasulullah, peace be upon him, said,
That is why it is called Ghiva.
If you were saying something which was not the case,
then that would be,
That is slander.
The difference between backbiting and slander is,
backbiting is to speak something negative,
which is actually a fact,
in the absence of the brother or sister.
And bahutan or slander is to make up something.
It is not true, you make it up.
Like they did with Maryam Alaihis Salah.
That was a slander.
They said she got pregnant with some man.
Like they made up about our mother, Sayyida Aisha Sindhi,
which was slander.
It was false.
The punishment for that in Islam is 80 lashes.
With a whip.
80 lashes and branded as a kazab,
as a liar for the rest of your life.
And the testimony of that person is not,
accepted in a court of law for his life.
And it's a very unique punishment because in Islam,
the usual rule is that once a punishment has been given,
the person is free.
For example, the punishment for theft is severance of one hand.
But after that, the person is not branded a thief and he should be called a thief
and he should not be given a job.
And then that's it.
That's it.
You got caught for theft.
You were convicted.
Punishment has been applied and that's it.
Then you are free to do what you want.
Except in this case.
In this case, after the punishment or part of the punishment is lifelong.
For what?
For speaking.
Just speaking.
Now, Namiwa is not backbiting,
but it is what we call in English insinuation.
For example, if somebody says, do you know Mr. Bakar?
He says, ah, of course ma'am.
Tell me about Bakar.
I know all about Bakar.
The whole world knows about Bakar.