Mufti Menk – Don’t Make Accusations Without Evidence

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The last one is

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To falsely accuse the believing

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females

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who are innocent of the sin you are

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accusing them of, primarily immorality.

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People today come out and say, that one

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is having an affair with this one. This

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one is having an affair. What did you

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see? You just saw them talking together.

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What else did you see? You saw one

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message on the phone. What else did you

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see? And you know how far your accusation

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went? Subhanallah.

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I'm not condoning messages on the phones, but

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I'm telling you, if the prophet

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says, be careful about accusing others of immorality,

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then you need to know it's a serious

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sin.

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It happened at the time of Rasulullah

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Surat An Nur has in it verses that

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have clarified accusations against our mother Aisha

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That was not for nothing. Allah says,

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The one who started all of it, the

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main man who was behind the accusation

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against Aisha

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he will have a severe punishment. But more

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than that,

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Everyone who spread the tale, everyone who enjoyed

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the gossip

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is going to be punished because of what

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they have done, what they have earned.

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So there are 2 things we need to

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know. Never accuse someone

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of something,

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especially when it comes to immorality. Because false

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accusation is something major. And secondly,

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never

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become

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a person who enjoys gossip because then you

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will be carrying tales. And when you carry

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tales, naturally, you will carry something that is

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wrong. And you will earn an equal portion

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of the sin based on what you have

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done.

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So that is the one hadith

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that speaks about the major sins or the

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sins that we have been warned about.

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They will destroy you.