Translation of the meanings Ayah 12 Surah Al-Hujurāt - English Translation - Abdullah Hasan Yaqoub - The Noble Qur'an Encyclopedia

Ayah: 12

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ ٱجۡتَنِبُواْ كَثِيرٗا مِّنَ ٱلظَّنِّ إِنَّ بَعۡضَ ٱلظَّنِّ إِثۡمٞۖ وَلَا تَجَسَّسُواْ وَلَا يَغۡتَب بَّعۡضُكُم بَعۡضًاۚ أَيُحِبُّ أَحَدُكُمۡ أَن يَأۡكُلَ لَحۡمَ أَخِيهِ مَيۡتٗا فَكَرِهۡتُمُوهُۚ وَٱتَّقُواْ ٱللَّهَۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ تَوَّابٞ رَّحِيمٞ

12. O believers, avoid much suspicion. For some suspicion is a sin. Do not spy or backbite7 one another. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You would detest it. Fear Allāh and shun evil. 'And know that' Allāh is accepting of repentance, Most Merciful.

7. The prophet Muhammad said: "Oh you who have believed with your tongues but faith has not yet entered your hearts, do not back-bite the people. Do not seek to discover their faults, for whoever seeks after their faults, Allāh will seek his faults. And if Allāh seeks after someone’s faults, he will expose him for even (what he committed) in his home." The prophet also said: "Whoever conceals the faults of his brother, Allāh will conceal his faults on the Day of Resurrection. And whoever exposes the faults of his brother, Allāh will expose his faults even by revealing those he committed in (the privacy of) his home."