Superiority Complex Leads to Evil CONTENTS

DON’T DISCUSS THE FAULTS OF OTHERS If someone has some failing or shortcoming, you should meet that person and advise him of this privately. Talking of these failings in public is highly objectionable. T he Prophet of Islam has said: “Do you know what backbiting is?” The Companions said: “God and His messenger know the best.” Thereupon the Prophet replied, “Backbiting implies your talking about your brother in a manner which he does not like.” The Prophet was then asked: “But what if we actually find that failing in our brother which we alluded to?” The Prophet said: “If that failing is actually found in him as asserted by you, you indeed subjected him to backbiting, but if it is not found in him, then it is slander.” (Sahih Muslim 2589) One of the most important things required for a healthy society is for people to speak generously of the virtues of others. They must refrain from speaking