Woe betide gossip mongers!

 

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Gossip behind people's back without being up front with the people you are bad mouthing and backbiting is a token of cowardice and duplicity in the one (or those) gossiping. It is moreover a sign of weakness in the character and the spirit of the person engaging in such behavior. It is also a form of black sorcery, and in the Amazon it is unequivocally defined as such by the natives and Mestizo (i.e. brujeria). If you have a problem with someone, you say it to them directly and either you i. resolve the problem and/or ii. walk away from the problem and the person at issue iii. and/or in some cases you pick up a sword and go to war, and/or vice versa. These are the only three options available.

Unfortunately this medium [i.e. Facebook] and social media in general has turned a majority of present humans into gossip demons, often times engaging in such behavior and jumping on gossip and defamation bandwagons just to entertain their otherwise empty and meaningless lives but without realizing or appreciating either the consequences for themselves or those they target. The thoroughly unmanly nature of such behavior in real men to one side, frivolous gossip is also a mark of i. either the over-privileged (and so there is a class conflict dynamic behind many manifestations of it) or ii. evidence of psychological and spiritual confusion and immaturity. Conversely the one who picks up a proverbial or actual sword and confronts an issue on either side of this dynamic is being chivalrous even if they stand on the wrong side of the equation of the matter.

 

That said, anyone who has a problem with me personally should either man or woman up and say whatever needs to be said directly to me, and not behind my back, or if I find out that you are engaging in such capricious, duplicitous and malicious behavior at my expense or the expense of those associated with me, may whatever higher power you believe in help you because I am a sword wielder and will come after you with my weapon drawn and ready to confront you because this is my sunnah. Deal with it!

 

النّور على مَن اتبع إشراقات الهدى