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What is Gheebat?

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What is gheebat and its effects? Is it permissible with non-Muslims? If someone simply says I don’t like such a person and nothing more, is it still gheebat?

The definition of backbiting is that a person mentions some bad about someone behind his back with the intent of lowering his dignity in the eyes of people. Even if that is not the intention usually that is what happens. And if the quality attributed to this person is not really found in him than it becomes slander. If you say something in front of the person it is called ‘tana’ if you say behind them it is called ‘gheeba’. These are amongst the major sins. The person who backbites is like eating the flesh of a person and in other prophetic tradition it has been considered to be worse than adultery. A sin usually has its effects both in this world and in the hereafter. Backbiting is not allowed even of a non-Muslim. But to notify the defaults of a person to himself with the intention of rectifying him or let’s say somebody did something wrong and a person says I don’t like this in front of others than that would not be considered backbiting.s

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