زندگى تحت توفيقات اصول اخلاق - مكارم شيرازى، ناصر - الصفحة ٨٨ - Dangers of slander

through material ways, thus Great God compensates it throu ghspiritual affairs: He transfers goods deeds of the slanderer to the book of deeds of the slandered, and if he does not have any good deed, God transfers sins of the slandered to the book of deeds of the slanderer, and it is compensated to the same degree that reputation of that person is damaged through transfer of good deeds and sins.

٨- Slander devaluates worships and servicesIt is realized from some traditions that slander is one of thefactors invalidating ritual ablution and fasting.

God's Prophet S. A. says:.

«الْجُلُوسُ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ انْتِظاراً لِلصَّلاةِ عِبادَةٌ ما لَمْ يُحْدِث؛ فَقِيلَ: يا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ! وَ مَا الْحَدَثُ؟ قالَ: الْاغْتِيابُ».

Waiting in the mosque for prayer is worship, until a ritualimpurity is not performed; it was questioned: what is ritual impurity? He said: slander!. [١]

And somewhere else he says:

«وَ مَنِ اغْتابَ مُسْلِماً بَطَلَ صَوْمُهُ وَ نَقَضَ وُضُوءُهُ» ..

One, who slanders about a Moslem, his fasting and ritualablution are broken.. [٢]

Its point may indicate that worship creates a condition ofproximity to God and spiritual luminosity in man, and when he stains his tongue to slander after ritual ablution or when fasting, that spirituality is significantly decreased, and that individual falls down from the degree of proximity to God. In the above tradition, this sense is interpreted as" violator"( breaker ).

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