This may be achieved by following the advices bellow...

This may be achieved by following the advices bellow: • It is obligatory to belie the talebearers, because they are sinful and distrustful. • It is necessary to avoid mistrusting one’s faithful brother just because some information are told against him: “Believers, stay away from conjecture; acting upon some conjecture may lead to sin. (49:12)” • One must not spy and inspect the talebearers’ news: “Do not spy on one another or backbite.

(49:12)” • One must avoid bearing the tales of the talebearers, lest he becomes talebearer and backbiter in the same time. It is related that, once, a man bore some tales about another before Amirul-Mu'minin (a) who said to him: “We will inspect that which you have born to us. If it is true, we will hate you. If it is not, we will punish you. If you like, now, we may overlook the matter.” The man asked Amirul-Mu'minin (a) to overlook it[^4].

Muhammad Ibn al-Fudhayl narrated that he asked Imam al-Kadhim (a) what he should do if trustworthy people inform him against a man, but that man would deny when he is faced. The Imam (a) instructed: “You should belie even your hearing and sight if they tell you something wrong about your believing brother. Moreover, if fifty swearing witnesses testify before you against your believing brother, but he would deny their testimonies, you should believe him and disapprove the fifty witnesses.

Never inform against your believing brother anything that he dislikes to divulge or anything that defames his personality, lest you are one of those about whom Allah says: “Those who like to publicize indecency among the believers will face painful torment in this world and in the life to come. Allah knows what you do not know. (24:19) [^5]” [^1]: Quoted from al-Wafi; part 3 page 164 (as quoted from al- Kafi). [^2]: Quoted from al-Wafi; part 3 page 164 (as quoted from al- Kafi).

[^3]: Quoted from Bihar ul-Anwar; Kitab ul-Ashara, 190 (as quoted from al-Amali). [^4]: Quoted from Safinat ul-Bihar; vol. 2 page 613. [^5]: Quoted from Bihar ul-Anwar; Kitab ul-Ashara, 188, as quoted from Thawab ul-A’mal. Previous…