In the Scarlet Letter you can see backbiting occurring all the time mostly between the women in Salem, Massachusetts. In this novel you can see the person getting affected by all …show more content…
Islam count backbiting as a major sin that can eventually lead you to hell fire. If all of the things that were happening in the scarlet letter happend in Islam nobody would be safe on the Day of Judgement. Islam says that backbiting is like eating the flesh of your own dead brother. In aya 12 of surah Hujurat it mentions that. Imagine eating the flesh of your own dead brother thats not something anyone would want to do which shows how major backbiting is. There is also a Hadith about backbiting that says I asked the Messenger of Allah: Who is the best Muslim? The Messenger of Allah replied, "He is the one from whom Muslims are safe from the evil of his tongue and hands.” this just shows that the impact of not committing the ssin will make a pure good muslim. If you do commit the major say the only way that it would get erased is if you first as to repent and pray for forgiveness, and that is between him and Allaah. If he knows that any of his words reached the person about whom he was speaking, then he should go to him and ask him to forgive him. This repentance is a long process at the end of the day you just should stay away from backbiting so you don't have to into the long process of repentance.
Backbiting is a very bad sin that everyone should stay away from. Even though they show it in books you should know the best and see what it does to the character the people are backbiting about. The