The Many Dangers of the Tongue
In the Name of Allâh, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Compiled by Imraan Hussein
Contents
Chapter One
Speaking about Allah without knowledge
1. Lying upon Allah and/or His Messenger (peace be upon him)
Various ways in which lying upon Allah and His Messenger are manifested
2. Making Legal decisions in Allah's Deen without knowledge
3. Ruling by other than what Allah has revealed
Chapter Two
Committing Shirk by the tongue
- Supplicating to other than Allah
- Visiting Fortune tellers, obeah men
- Swearing by other besides Allah
- Denying a Name or description of Allah or changing its apparent meaning
Chapter Three
Affecting a Muslim with the tongue
- Slander and False accusation
- Witnessing Falsehood or Bearing False Witness
- Accusing/Slandering pious women
- It is prohibited to deceive a Muslim who is seeking sincere advise
- The prohibition of proposing to a woman who is already engaged
- Indulging in defaming a Muslim
- Mockery, Sarcasm and debasing Muslims
Chapter Four
Some seemingly harmless uses of the tongue that have disastrous consequences
Chapter Five
- Speaking about that which there is no need with which to concern oneself
- A shameless, vulgar, indecent tongue
- It is prohibited for a woman to describe another woman to her husband
- The prohibition to use the word 'if' in relation to Qadr (predestination)
- It is prohibited for a person to say such and such is for Jannah or Jahanam
- The prohibition of defaming one's kin
- The prohibition to speak while the Khateeb is giving Khutbah on the Day of Jumu'ah
- Prohibition to employ Respectable titles
for hypocrites and Innovate
Blasphemy, insult, ridicule and abuse
It is prohibited to blaspheme:
(a) Allah, His Messenger (peace be upon him) His Book, His Deen
(b) The Sahabas
(c) Muslims
(d) The dead
(e) What the unbelievers worship
(f) The wind
(g) The rooster
(h) Time
(i) Fever