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Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali · 2024
A translation of al-Ghazali's classical Islamic text on the spiritual dangers and ethical pitfalls of speech, covering twenty categories of harmful tongue including lying, backbiting, gossip, and mockery. A scholarly work of Islamic ethics and spiritual guidance presented with extensive scholarly apparatus.
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What this book knows
Every misuse of the tongue — lying, backbiting, slander, false praise — is a spiritual wound that destroys the self and community before God.
obedience-and-authority
'Most of the offenses of the son of Adam are from his tongue' — the body's members complain to God about its sharpness.
BTB2-RC-029Once the door of joking is opened, his only intention will be to make people laugh in whatever way he can.
BTB2-RC-075Universal principles of the Qur'an and the example of the Prophet established norms recognized as a facet of shared humanity and identity.
BTB2-RC-019shame
The pain he causes another by backbiting is like his pain if another backbit him; defaming people is eating the flesh of the dead.
BTB2-RC-127faith-and-doubt
Four traits are in one who is a hypocrite: when he speaks he lies, when he promises he breaks it.
BTB2-RC-086Steadfastly abstain from speech with both peers and others, and pay heed with every breath to the innermost soul over the discourse of the lower self.
BTB2-RC-0126 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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