Ayatollah Naser Makarem-Shirazi has been delivering a series of Ramadhan lectures on IRIB\u2019s Channel Three program \u201cFountain of Knowledge.\u201d On the 28th night, His Eminence emphasized the sins of creating and spreading rumours and revealing the secrets of others.<\/p>\n
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His Eminence stated that in\u00a0Du\u2019a Makarim al-Akhlaq<\/em>\u00a0(Supplication on the Noble Moral Traits), Imam Ali ibn al-Husayn as-Sajjad (A), included ethical problems of the tongue, such as backbiting, and said: \u201crevealing of secrets is one of the branches of backbiting that is the most common in our era.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He explained that sometimes political factions or people reveal information or secrets about others: \u201cUnrevealed secrets sometimes become rumours. For example, when there aren\u2019t any documents or evident to prove or disprove the allegations. Sometimes the evidence is based on hidden information which has been discovered [through malicious means] and then it becomes exposed.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi explained that revealing secrets and rumours is an example of slander and vilification: \u201cWhen someone reveals information based on precise and hidden information, it is an example of backbiting because someone\u2019s hidden flaws were exposed to others. Until the time when someone\u2019s sins are proven in a competent court of law, revealing them in the media is against Islamic law because the allegations are not adequate and they must be brought forward with credible proofs in a competent court of law.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n His Eminence explained that sometimes creating rumours and revealing secrets can be a form of psychological warfare, and stated: \u201cOne of the branches of modern war is \u2018psychological warfare,\u2019 and one of the sub-branches of psychological warfare is creating and spreading rumours.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He stated that disclosure of information and spreading rumours are contrary to Islamic law: \u201cSometimes the enemy creates political factionalism by spreading rumours and false information so that they can achieve their aims.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi referred to the Holy Quran which states that the hypocrites spread rumours against the Prophet Muhammad (S) as a weapon to discredit him: \u201cThe hypocrites said that one of the wives of the Prophet (S) was unchaste and spread this rumour throughout Madinah. They assumed that if the chastity of one of the wives of the Prophet (S) was questioned, then the claims of his prophethood would also be questioned. These were intentions of the hypocrites. After this rumour began, fifteen verses of Surat an-Nur [The Light] were revealed [verses 11-26] which condemned this psychological war and the creation of rumours.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In one of the verses of Surat an-Nur, God says: <\/p>\n Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi emphasized that there is a lesson for Muslims in these verses: we should not create rumours and not submit to them either. He explained: \u201cWhen some of them explain \u2018they say such a thing occurred,\u2019 they have responsibility because creating rumours and revealing the secrets of others is fundamentally forbidden by Islamic law. The spreading of these rumours is also a sin by means of saying \u2018they say\u2026\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n His Eminence added: \u201cWe hope that our society can understand the commands of the Holy Quran and read these fifteen verses of Surat an-Nur to understand the importance that God has given to this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi concluded his sermon by emphasizing that we should be manipulated by gossipers and those who reveal secrets. \u201cThose who create false rumours and reveal secrets are tools to stoke political divisions which are planned by the enemies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source: Rasa News Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ayatollah Naser Makarem-Shirazi has been delivering a series of Ramadhan lectures on IRIB\u2019s Channel Three program \u201cFountain of Knowledge.\u201d On the 28th night, His Eminence emphasized the sins of creating and spreading rumours and revealing the secrets of others. 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\n\u201cWhy did not the believing men and the believing women, when you heard it, think well of their own people, and say: \u2018This is an evident falsehood?\u2019\u201d<\/em>\u00a0[24:12]\n