Tawheed is the key

Note:this story is not a really tawbah story from jaahiliyyah to emaan..but a repentance from sins..something we all need inshaAllah u’ll benefit from it

The affects of backbiting

Noora was a righteous and practicing girl. She knew about the prohibition of backbiting and to talk about the honour of muslims in a negative way, that it was one of the major sins and she knew the punishment prepared for those who commit this sin.

Once she went to visit some relatives and she sat in gathering with some women and young girls. The conversations were many until shaitan made them talk about Fulaanah, eating her flesh by backbiting her, dishonouring her and making fun of her.

Noora wanted to forbid the evil they were comitting and make them stop the evil talk about this muslimah but shaitan and her nafs stopped her from doing it with the excuse of “shyness and embarrasment” in front of those in the gathering, not wanting to make them feel uncomfortable!!

And here the caller of imaan in her heart told her to leave the gathering of backbiting and go into another room! But she didnt do it beacuse she was shy and embarrast in front of the women and didnt want them to call her strange names!

When she returned to her house she prayed but didnt feel the sweetness of prayer that she was used to feel. She opened the Qur’aan and read from it without feeling the sweetness of Qur’aan! She stood up to pray at night to seek her Lord but without feeling the sweetness of night prayers!!

She turned to herself, putting herself to account and was searching for the reason to this sudden change she felt in her heart. Allaah made her realize that it was because she was sitting in the gathering of backbiting even though she didnt participate in it. She turned to Allaah, seeking Him and repenting for that sin. Still she felt inside that she should punish her nafs so that it wouldnt think about returning to that sin again! She made an oath to Allaah that she would fast a whole week as a kaffaara for her sins and as a lesson to her nafs!

She fasted the whole week and she felt the hunger and thirst and she was tired. Everytime she would feel the pain of hunger and thirst she would tell her nafs: patience on hunger and thirst is better than patience in the fire of hell!

From that day Noora would not sit in a gathering of backbiting, slandering, sins or evil. She would either forbid the evil or leave the gathering!

We Ask Allaah to keep us firm on the straight path and protect us from backbiting and slandering. And may Allaah make us of those who forbid the evil and stay away from its people. Ameen

[From "Nisaa' Rabbahunnal-Qur'aan"]