Sowing Toxic Weeds in this World ~ What to Expect for Reaping/Harvesting in Aakhirah💭

A’oodhu-Billahi-Minashaitanir-Rajeem
Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Raheem

🤲 Allāhummahdini Allāhummahdini Allāhummahdini
‎اللَّهُمَّ اهْدِنِي اللَّهُمَّ اهْدِنِي اللَّهُمَّ اهْدِنِي
[O Allāh, Guide me; O Allāh, Guide me; O Allāh, Guide me.]

The Messenger of Allāh‎ﷺ said,
🔹“Do you know what backbiting is?” They said, “Allāh and his messenger know best.” The Prophet‎ﷺ said, “To mention your brother in a way he dislikes.”  It was said, “What do you think if what I said about him is true?” The Prophet‎ﷺ said, “If what you say about him is true, it is backbiting. If it is not true, it is slander.” [📚Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2589, Grade:Sahih; Riyad as-Salihin 1523; Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1934]
🔹“O you who have faith with their tongues but faith has not entered their hearts! Do not backbite the Muslims or seek their faults. Whoever seeks their faults, Allāh will seek his faults. And if Allāh seeks his faults, He will expose him even in the privacy of his own house.” [📚Sunan Abī Dāwūd 4880, Grade:Sahih (Al-Albani)]

Allāh subḥānahu wa ta’āla says in the Qur’an: “O you who have believed, avoid much assumptions (for) indeed, some assumption is sin. And do not spy or backbite one other. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You would detest it. And fear Allāh, indeed Allāh is the One Who forgives (and accepts repentance) and Merciful.” [al-Hujurat 49:12]
Let’s ponder over above👆 ayat and the comparison👇:
♦️This is from among the most excellent of exemplifying analogies, wherein Allāh has likened the shredding of the honour of a Muslim brother (through backbiting him) to the ripping of his flesh.
♦️And since the backbiter shreds his brother’s honour in his absence, he becomes like the one who tears his brother’s flesh apart due to the absence of his soul from his body due to death – and just as the person being backbitten is unable to defend himself due to his absence, is likened to the dead person whose flesh is being ripped apart and is unable to defend it.
♦️Likewise, considering that brotherhood demands mutual mercy and relation and support whereas the backbiter attaches to it – opposite connotations such as blame and fault-finding and backstabbing, making it is as if he were tearing his brother’s flesh apart.
♦️And whereas brotherhood demands preserving, protecting and defending his brother’s honour, the backbiter takes pleasure in smitching his brother’s honour and censuring him, therefore he has been likened to devouring his brother’s flesh after tearing it up.
♦️And as the backbiter enjoys doing it and thinks good of it, he has been resembled to one who loves to eat the flesh of his brother.
And his love and enjoyment in eating his brother’s flesh is a degree beyond just eating, just as eating it is a degree beyond ripping it apart.
♦️Therefore, reflect over this comparison and exemplification and its excellent arrangement and the complete correspondence between the abstract and the concrete.
♦️The description of the characterisation in the later part of the ayat preceded by the denial that anyone of them could actually love this (i.e. consuming their brother’s flesh).
♦️The case (being made) is that just as this act is reprehensible to them in their very nature, how could they love the deed of backbiting which in its nature resembles consuming one’s brothet’s flesh?
💎🔹♦️So Allāh has established an argument against something they love to do (backbite) by employing an example of something they find reprehensible.
⭐️He does this by striking a similarity between something they like to do with some which is most hateful and reprehensible to them.
💖This reasoning compels sound mind, nature and wisdom to be strongly repelled by something which is a counterpart and analagons to it. And with Allāh lies success.
📚 Chapter 12. Backbiting & Tearing of the Flesh from the Book PARAGONS of the QUR’AN (by Imam ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah ~ a translation of his work ‘Amthal fi’l Qur’an al-Karim’).

Only Allāh knows the best…

Let’s sincerely repent over the backbiting/slandering we did/participated in the past knowingly/unknowingly and seek forgiveness from the Almighty &&& control our tongues towards this sinful act from this moment onwards. Let’s ask Almighty to bless & guide the ones we have wronged including our own souls.
🤲 Allāhumma fa’ayyumā mu’minin sababtuhu faj`al dhālika lahu qurbatan ilayka yawma‘l-qiyāmah.
اللهُمَّ فأَيُّمَا مُؤْمِنٍ سَبَبْتُهُ فَاجْعَلْ ذَلِكَ لهُ قُرْبةً إليكَ يَوْمَ القِيَامةِ
[O Allāh, whomever of the believers I have abused, let that be cause to draw him near to You on the Day of Resurrection.]
🤲 Laa Ilaha Illa Anta Sub’haanaka Innee Kuntu Minazzaalimeen.
‎لَّآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّآ أَنتَ سُبْحَٰنَكَ إِنِّى كُنتُ مِنَ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ
[There is no deity except You; Exalted are You. Indeed, I have been of the wrongdoers.]
🤲 Allāhumma’hdi qalbi wa saddid lisani.
اللَّهُمَّ اهْدِ قَلْبِي و سَدِّدْ لِسَاني
[O Allāh, guide my heart and set right my tongue.]
🤲 Rabbighfir war’ham wa-anta khair’ur raahimeen.
‎رَبِّ اغْفِرْ وَارْحَمْ وَأَنْتَ خَيْرُ الرَّاحِمِينَ
[My Lord, forgive and have mercy, and You are the best of the Merciful.]
🤲 Allāhumma inni as’aluka husnal khatima.
اَللَّهُمَّ إِنِّيْ أَسْأَلُكَ حُسْنَ الْخَاتِمَة
[O Allāh, I ask you for a good end.]
🤲 Allāhummarzuqni taubatan nasuha qablal maut.
اَللَّهُمَّ ارْزُقْنِي تَوْبَتًا نَّصُوْحَا قَبْلَ الْمَوْﺕ
[O Allāh, grant me sincere repentance before death.]
🤲 Allāhumma ḥāsibnī ḥisāban yasīran
اَللّٰهُمَّ حَاسِبْنِىْ حِسَا بًا يَّسِيْرًا
[O Allāh, Grant me an easy reckoning.]
🤲 Sub’haanaka Allāhumma wa bi hamdika, ash’hadu an laa ilaaha illa anta, astaghfiruka wa atubu ilayka.
سُبْحَانَكَ اللَّهُمَّ وَبِحَمْدِكَ أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ أَنْتَ أَسْتَغْفِرُكَ وَأَتُوبُ إِلَيْكَ
[Glorified be You, O Allāh, our Lord, I praise You. There is no god but You. I seek Your forgiveness and repent of my sins to You.]
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