Do you know who is the one who is a bankrupt person? And the companions respond
saying, 'he is one who does not having any gold or silver. In our terms, one
with no cash, he's a cashless person and perhaps, he owes people so much. So
the Messenger said No! A true bankrupt person is he who comes on the Day of
Judgment with a lot of good deeds next to his name, a lot of good deeds. For
example, he would have salah; he would have lots of salah. Perhaps, he might
have salah in the masjid with jama'ah in the first line and perhaps, he might
not have missed his tilaawah or recitation of the Quran. Perhaps, he might have
engaged in lots of remembrance of Allah. Perhaps, he might given out lots of
charities. Perhaps, he might have gone for hajj and he might have fasted in the
month of ramadan and he might have engaged in the voluntary fast. Now these are
all signs of what we would term a pious person.
Today, my beloved brothers and
sisters, piety has become an item and an issue that people gage by looking at
the outward appearance of an individual, not realizing that the true root of
piety is the Heart. It begins to show outwardly, correct, but not necessarily
everyone who looks outwardly pious is actually internally pious and not
everyone who looks outwardly impious would be internally...in the same. May
Allah (subahaanahu wa ta'ala) grant us the rectification of both, the internal
as well as the external. So...they would be people who have come with lots of
good deeds, many good deeds, but, when he comes, he would have slander this
one, he would have backbitten this one, he would have usurped the wealth of
this one, he would have wronged this one, he would have sworn-ed the other.
'Shatam' means, one who abuses verbally the others.
Today we abuse those who
work for us, we abuse our colleagues, we abuse our children, we abuse our
spouses, we abuse our parents, verbally. How dare we do that, when we are
looking forward for the day we meet our Maker. How do you think it would be,
when we present our swear words, in front of the Almighty and say, 'Ya Allah,
when I was in the world, you give me one chance and here you are, Ya Allah
these are the words I used to use.' Authubillah! May the Almighty protect us
from the devil. So the devil comes to us, and he make us harm someone, backbite
someone.
For your information, brothers and sisters, backbiting is so dangerous
that today we are living in an age of backbiting and people do not understand
the meaning of backbiting because when you say my brother, my sister do not
talk about this person bad, because they are not here. They will tell you, 'but
what I am saying is true' - that shows the height of ignorance, because the
Messenger (ﷺ) has explained very
clearly, that when you are speaking the truth about someone else in their
absence, in a way that they would not like it if they were present, that is
known as backbiting. So to speak a lie is actually worse, so if you want to
know what is backbiting, brothers and sisters, it is to speak the truth about
someone in their absence in a way that if they were there, they would not like
it, may the Almighty forgive us all (Ameen!).
Youtube Video Link : Dangers of Backbiting and Slandering
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