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The Prophet (s) said, “The most beloved of you to Allah are the best of moralities and the modest.
They are those who like others’ company and others like them. The most hateful of you to Allah
are those going in slander, driving wedges between the associates, and searching for the
innocents’ flaws.”[1] “For those who refer to a Muslim’s flaw for tattling, they will be in the hell‐
fire in the Hereafter.”[2]
Imam al‐Baqir (a) said, “The Paradise is interdicted from the backbiters and those going about in
slander.”[3]
Imam as‐Sadiq (a) said, “Those who convey a deed of a Muslim for the purpose of debasing and
dishonoring, God will dismiss them from His guardianship to the Satan’s. The Satan will reject
them, too.”[4]
Incentives of tattling:
‐ The will of stirring up discord, evil, and malice against the slandered causes tattling.
‐ The will of approximating and favoring those about whom a word was said, for obtaining their
confidence, is another incentive of tattling.
‐ The will of rupturing relations and creating sedition between the slanderer and
[1] Refer to Mustedrakus‐Wasail: Kitabul‐Hajj: 111.
[2] Refer to Jamiussaadat: 2/271.
[3] Refer to Usulul‐kafi.
[4] Refer to Jamiussaadat: 2/271.
the slandered is another incentive of tattling.
Protection against tattling:
‐ A deliberate consideration of the sedition and the evil that is created from tattling may save
against adhering to it. Tattling is a means of destroying and corruption that is possessed only by
the faithless.
‐ Looking upon the chastisement that God will subject upon the tattlers, whose deeds reach to no
profit at all, may remove this ill quality.
‐ Tattlers should regard that their deeds debase them, and make people distrust and belie them.
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