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Snooping and Gossiping | Hubeali Skip to content Hubeali Menu Topics Quran Tafseer Books Urdu Books English Books Sermons School of Wilayat Search for: Search Button Home Articles Snooping and Gossiping Details Sidebar Table of contents Summary: Allah-azwj Dislikes Spying and Snooping: Gossiping is from the grave sins: Neither doubt a trusted one nor trust the betrayer: Prohibition of conjecturing Snooping and Gossiping Download PDF Summary: These days, embarrassing, impolite and disgusting pieces of information are shared in the name of breaking news – all of these are forbidden in Islam.

Sometimes, it is done with an excuse – ‘forwarded as received’ – to shift the blame to the source. And discussing others, behind their back, has become the norm and gossiping and snooping have been widely practised without reflecting that these are grave sins and prohibited in Islam. All these vices are to peak closer to the last time of the world, i.e., the time of the reappearance of the 12 th Imam -ajfj .

Rasool Allah -saww foretold to Salman (Al-Farsi) about the affairs of the people of the last time: ‘And lying would become common, and obstinacy would be apparent, and hunger would be widespread, and the enjoining of the good would be disliked along with the prohibiting of the evil, to the extent that a believer of that era would be the most humiliated one of the communities…’ (an extract).