3. UMMAH-NESS ISLAMIC BROTHERHOOD

3. UMMAH-NESS Islamic Brotherhood ~ 91 ~ ourselves. In our mission we exhort people to learn the virtues of modesty, and when they come to possess them, surely they will succeed in both the worlds. “Defamation may consist in speaking ill of others by spoken or written words, or in acting in such a way as to suggest the culpability of some person whom we are not in a position to judge. All these things ill-accord with the serious purpose which Muslims should have in life. “Most kinds of suspicions are baseless and are to be avoided, and some are crimes in themselves, for they do cruel injustice to innocent men and women. Spying, or inquiring too curiously into people’s affairs means either idle curiosity, and is therefore futile, or suspicion carried a stage further, which almost amounts to sin. Slandering others falls into the same category. If slander is baseless it can range from being purely mischievous, to being poisoned with malice, in which case it is a sin added to sin.