Tabligh Movement
3. UMMAH-NESS
Islamic Brotherhood
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ourselves. In our mission we exhort people to learn
the virtues of modesty, and when they come to
possess them, surely they will succeed in both the
worlds.
“Defamation may consist in speaking ill of others
by spoken or written words, or in acting in such a
way as to suggest the culpability of some person
whom we are not in a position to judge. All these
things ill-accord with the serious purpose which
Muslims should have in life.
“Most kinds of suspicions are baseless and are to be
avoided, and some are crimes in themselves, for
they do cruel injustice to innocent men and women.
Spying, or inquiring too curiously into people’s
affairs means either idle curiosity, and is therefore
futile, or suspicion carried a stage further, which
almost amounts to sin. Slandering others falls into
the same category. If slander is baseless it can range
from being purely mischievous, to being poisoned
with malice, in which case it is a sin added to sin.
