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Introduction

Speaking about Allah without knowledge

1. Lying upon Allah and/or His Messenger (peace be upon him)

Various ways in which lying upon Allah and His Messenger are manifested

(a) Describing Allah without proof from the Quran and the authentic Sunnah

(b) Explaining Ayat of the Quran or the Hadeeth of the Prophet (peace be upon him) with meanings other than their apparent ones.

(c) Making Haraam Halaal

(d) Making Halaal Haraam

(e) Using fabricated and unauthentic Hadeeth

2. Making Legal decisions in Allah's Deen without knowledge

3. Ruling by other than what Allah has revealed

4. Bid'ah (innovations)

Committing Shirk by the tongue

Shirk committed by the tongue

- Supplicating to other than Allah

- Kufr Ni'mah

- Visiting Fortune tellers, obeah men

- Swearing by other besides Allah

- Denying a Name or description of Allah or changing its apparent meaning

- Blaspheming Allah, the Quran, Allah's Messenger, etc.

- Those who deny Qadr

- It is prohibited to sit in the company of those who give wrong interpretation about the Quran or Islam

Affecting a Muslim with the tongue

- Backbiting

- Slander and False accusation

- Witnessing Falsehood or Bearing False Witness

- Accusing/Slandering pious women

- Lying

- Tale Carrying (Scandal)

- How to treat Tale-carriers

- It is prohibited to deceive a Muslim who is seeking sincere advise

- The prohibition of proposing to a woman who is already engaged

- Indulging in defaming a Muslim

- The two-faced person

- Mockery, Sarcasm and debasing Muslims

- Disclosing and spreading secrets

- It is prohibited to remind others of one's generosity

Some seemingly harmless uses of the tongue that have disastrous consequences

- Begging

- Praising people

- Singing

- Jesting and Joking

- Disputes and Arguments

General Evils of the tongue

- Speaking about that which there is no need with which to concern oneself

- Excessive speech

- Engaging in vain talk

- A shameless, vulgar, indecent tongue

- Gossip

- It is prohibited for a woman to describe another woman to her husband

- The prohibition to use the word 'if' in relation to Qadr (predestination)

- It is prohibited for a person to say such and such is for Jannah or Jahanam

- The prohibition of defaming one's kin

- The prohibition of boasting

- The prohibition to speak while the Khateeb is giving Khutbah on the Day of Jumu'ah

- Prohibition to employ Respectable titles for hypocrites and Innovate

Blasphemy, insult, ridicule and abuse

It is prohibited to blaspheme:

(a) Allah, His Messenger (peace be upon him) His Book, His Deen

(b) The Sahabas

(c) Muslims

(d) The dead

(e) What the unbelievers worship

(f) The wind

(g) The rooster

(h) Time

(i) Fever

Conclusion

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