Friday’s Trip: Stop Eating That Flesh of Your Brother -By Olayinka Abdur-Razaq

When will you want to stop dishing out your good deeds to that brother or sister? Won’t you be ashamed on the Day you would stand before your Rabb and all your hard-earned good deeds will be given to the victim of your backbitings. The Day that everybody will be saying ‘myself, myself’.

The shortness of this transition is clear and your period therein is very minute. Hence, stop wasting your precious time on what will not benefit you here and the next life.

Beware, among the destructive major sins is backbiting. This sin is forbidden by Allah, and it sows enmity, evil and discord among people and leads to destruction. It decreases your good deeds and increases your evils that may lead to dishonor and ignominy.

Allāh described this act as the vilest and despicable of things, yet the most widely spread amongst mankind, such that no one is free from it except for a few people is backbiting.

Allah says in the Holy Quran: “O you who believe! Avoid much suspicion, in deeds some suspicions are sins. And spy not neither backbite one another. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother?

Would you like to eat the flesh of your dead brother? As that will be disgusting and irritating to you, that is how backbiting, saying something about your brother that he would dislike should be to you. Even if what you are saying about him is true. Yes, it’s still backbiting, avoid it, in order not to be among the bankrupt on the day of accountability.

If you reflect deeply over this, it should be enough to keep you away from backbiting.

May Allah make it easy for you and grant you firmness and goodness upon the religion.

Today is another great day, try to utilize any second of your day in His remembrance and supplications upon the Prophet, may Allah be pleased with him. That benefits you in both worlds more than backbitings.

As Salaam alaykum warohamatullah wabarakatuh,

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