We receive news all the time, especially in this day and age
and Muslims have been told by Allah and his Rasul ﷺ
to be very careful, to be mindful of; what they hear, what they receive, what they believe
and what they repeat and pass on to others. In a hadith related by Imam Muslim in his Sahih
and by others from Abu Huraira, Rasulullah ﷺ says,
كفى بالمرء كذبًا أن يحدث بكل ما سمع
"It is a sufficient for a man to be a liar that he repeats everything that he hears."
Simple
A man doesn't have to be an intentional liar, but it is sufficient
for a man to end up lying and to become a liar that he simply repeats whatever he hears.
Now in a day we hear a hundred things.
10 of them might be truths
20 of them might be misconceptions, misunderstandings
20 of them might be exaggerations and 50 of them will be outright lies.
If a person repeats every single one of them, he will end up conveying repeating
50 lies, 20 exaggerations, 20 misunderstandings and only 10 truths.
So for a man to be a liar
it is a sufficient that he repeats everything that he hears.
This is a hadith of Rasulullah ﷺ.
Now we receive so much information so much; news, gossip, whispers, telephone calls,
text messages, messages through social media, instant messaging.
People forwarding things people forwarding things all the time
Sometimes it's frivolous, sometimes it's meaningless, sometimes it's trivial
sometimes it's serious; warnings which nobody bothers checking and if somebody
did they'd realize that this warning was actually issued seven years ago by some authority.
And it's still being circulated right now.
Falsehoods and even before the
advent of social media and instant messaging and communication
In normal society what we would hear in person from people
that in itself was bad enough and Allah references this throughout the Quran in
more than one place. We hear things all the time
And much of it is gossip,
innuendo, insinuations, exaggerations, misconstructions, misconceptions and
misunderstandings and only part of it is truth.
And we have to be very careful especially when this affects other people's lives, livelihoods
their honour, their dignity when it comes to rumors, gossip
People love salacious gossip and yet it is so harmful so detrimental
In fact many of the principles of journalism
are opposed in the Qur'an.
Many of the basics of journalism are opposed in the Qur'an.
Some of the basics of journalism are actually advocated in the Qur'an, but some
of them are contradicted and frowned upon.
Not everything which is in the public - not everything which interests the
public is in the public interest.
Just because something interests us, no matter who it may be in relation to
it's not in our interest to know and Allah teaches us in the Qur'an
and so does the Messenger ﷺ in the hadith,
that we should disregard it because it doesn't concern us.
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