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Lesson: 68 What is the Spreading of Indecency?
One of the
dangerous habits and bad deeds is spreading of shamelessness or indecency in
which, sometimes, some people and sometimes even our pious people get involved.
In this connection,
the Holy Quran says: Surely as for those who love that scandal should circulate
respecting those who believe, they shall have a grievous chastisement in this
world and the hereafter; and Allah knows, while you do not know.
As man is a
social being, the big society in which he lives is, from one angle like his
house and his sanctuary and hence the cleanness of the society helps cleaning
his house and so also dirtying the society helps makes his home dirty.
On the basis
of this principle, in Islam, there is a severe fight against every act or deed
that pollutes the atmosphere.
If we see that
Islam fought severely with backbiting and scandal, one of its logic is that,
as a result of making false allegation against an innocent person the society
becomes polluted which ends in the moral corruption of the entire society. Similarly
if Islam has ordered the covering of defects or shortcomings, one of its reason
also is that a sin may not become common.
An open offence
is greater than a secret sin. Look at this word of Imam Ali bin Moosa Reza in
this connection: One who gives circulation to a sin is banished and forsaken
and the one who covers a sin will be forgiven by God.
So also if
we see that in the above quoted verse the spreading of scandal has been severely
censored it is also because of this.
As a matter
of fact, a sin is like fire. When there is a fire at one point in the society
we should try to cool it down or to contain it. But if we fan the fire and thus
carry it from one point to another point it will engulf everything and then
nobody will be able to control it.
Apart from
this, the greatness of severity of a sin in the eyes of the common man and the
apparent protection of the society from pollution, in itself, is a big dam against
the flood of corruption. The circulation of scandal and shamelessness and spread
of the sin openly breaches this dam, makes the sin light in public eye and makes
pollution easy.
The Holy Prophet
(s.a.w.s.) has said: a man approached him and said: may I be sacrificed for
you; people have narrated a deed allegedly done by a brother-in-faith hearing
which I became displeased. When I asked that person, he denied while all reliable
persons have narrated this thing from that person himself. The Imam said: Refute
your own eye and ear against your believing brother so much so that even if
fifty persons say that he had done something but he says he did not then believe
him and disbelieve them. Never circulate in society a thing which may defame
him and bring his personality down, otherwise you will be the one about whom
God has said: those who love that scandal should circulate respecting those
who believe, they shall have a grievous chastisement in this world and the hereafter.
And Amirul
Momineen (a.s.) said: Always think good about a deed of your brother-in-faith
until its opposite become clear and do not imagine badly about him as long as
you can consider him correct.
In conclusion
we must know that one day each and every organ of our body will be asked to
account for the deeds done and that it will be a hard questioning.
The Holy Quran
says: And follow not that of which you have not the knowledge; surely the
hearing and the sight and the heart, all of these, shall be questioned.
Finally Muslims
must keep in mind that the hypocrites, some times, through rumour mongering
and circulation of allegations, defame and drive away great personalities from
the field and they assassinate the character of people so severely that they
introduce even the most honest man as the most dishonest. For example, during
the last hundred years, just look what they had done with great men like Ayatollah
Sheikh Fazlullah Noori and Ayatollah Kaashaani and Shaheed Behishti and
