Guard Your Tongue From Idle Talk!

The mode of Communication has gotten easier and Advanced but our Quality of Communication has gone down hill and keeps getting Worse.

…If we were to look back at our conversations and were to give it a grade, we would surely get a Failing one because all that we talk about is based on Backbiting, Slandering, Cursing, Swearing, Enveying, Hating, Complaining and on and on. Is that what we do best? We should talk with reason, with purpose, with the rememberance of Allah. We have been constantly warned against 2 organs in the body and one of them is the tongue. And we are failing miserably at its usage.

We need to wake up and find the root cause of this disease before it overtakes us. We can’t put the blame on others since we all have been given the intellect to decide the best company for us. Even being in the presence of such people, with the intention of not engaging in the talk will have a negative effect on us. Yet we still choose and continue to be with the company of those, Who will not only themselves but will also drag us with them to the pits of Hell fire.

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Abu Hurayra is that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “A slave of Allah might say something which pleases Allah Almighty without realising it on account of which Allah raises him some degrees. A slave of Allah might say something which angers Allah Almighty without realising it on account of which he falls into Jahannam.” [al-Bukhari]

1516. Abu ‘Abdu’r-Rahman Bilal ibn al-Harith al-Muzani reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and

grant him peace, said, “A man may say something which pleases Allah Almighty without him realising the full extent of its implication, and because of it, Allah prescribes His pleasure for him until the Day he meets Him. And a man may likewise say something which angers Allah without him realising the full extent of its implication, and because of it, Allah prescribes His wrath for him until the Day he meets Him. [Malik in al-Muwatta’ and at-Tirmidhi]

1517. Sufyan ibn ‘Abdullah said, “I said, ‘Messenger of Allah, tell me something I can cling to.’ He said, ‘Say: “My Lord is Allah” and then go straight.’ I said, ‘Messenger of Allah, what is the thing you fear most for me?’ He took hold of his tongue and then said, ‘This.'” [at-Tirmidhi]

1518. Ibn ‘Umar reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “Do not say much without mentioning Allah. A lot of talk without mentioning Allah Almighty makes people’s hearts hard. The furthest of people from Allah are the hard-hearted.” [at-Tirmidhi]

1519. Abu Hurayra said, “The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ‘Anyone whom Allah protects from the evil of what is between his jaws and the evil of what is between his legs will enter the Garden.'” [at-Tirmidhi]

1520. ‘Uqba ibn ‘Amir said, “I said, ‘Messenger of Allah, what ensures safety?’ He said, ‘Holding your tongue, keeping to your house and weeping for your sins.'” [at-Tirmidhi]

1521. Abu Sa’id al-Khudri reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “When the son of Adam starts the day, all his limbs supplicate his tongue, saying, ‘Fear Allah in respect of us. We move by you. If you go straight, we go straight. If you go crooked, we go crooked.'” [at-Tirmidhi]

Jazaakumullaahu khayraan for your support and understanding
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