heart

The human HEART is the most important part of the human anatomy. It is the most treasured and vulnerable part which is responsible for a lot of things. It is the source of our faith, and sincerity behind our actions. A few days ago, I was hanging out with a group of my acquaintances who were talking about a woman that we all know. They were talking about something that I personally find hard to believe about her. Whenever I am faced with these situations, I will try and find ways to change the topic or find excuse to get away. I know I am no saint, and sure I have my fair share in gossiping about people, but I sure can tell the difference between gossiping and spreading rumours or fitnah.

I do believe that fitnah is one of the things that cause the damage of hearts impurities. It couldn’t only ruin the person that is being fitnah but also the person causing it will be affected by the fitnah. Fitnah can end friendships, marriage and even worse causing the downfall of a society.

Allah has reminded us of the danger of fitnah in Surah Al-Baqarah (191) “Dan fitnah itu lebih bahayanya daripada pembunuhan” or in plain English, fitnah is much worse that the act of murder.

I find that no matter how different fitnah can be, all of them have one thing in common, the person spreading the fitnah only wants to ruin someone’s or a group’s reputation, and that there are some sort of personal gain to be achieved by the person spreading the fitnah.

The sins from spreading fitnah will never be forgiven by Allah..thats the most scary part. Only the person being fitnah will be able to forgive the sins of those that have wronged him/her. So, although I hope that I will never be in a situation where people will or have spread fitnah about me, I would always hope and pray that their sins against me will be forgiven if they do anyway. Well you never know right? They are human after all, I mean I can’t be naïve and live my life thinking people will always want to say nice TRUTHS about me.

Even the Prophet Muhammad forgives his people. So who am I to deny other people from that? :)