النساء

وَمَن يَكْسِبْ خَطِيئَةً أَوْ إِثْمًا ثُمَّ يَرْمِ بِهِ بَرِيئًا فَقَدِ احْتَمَلَ بُهْتَانًا وَإِثْمًا مُّبِينًا 112

    Following the arguments about betrayal and calumny; in these three verses; three cases are considered, and three general instructions are issued on them:

      1- The way to repentance is always open, and if you do wrong and evil, but cease and repent, the Lord God who is the Most Compassionate Forgiver will pardon you.

      2- If you do ill and evil, but stop not doing that, and repent not, you will have to suffer the full spiritual and material consequences of your deeds.

      3- Calumny is counted as a very great and heinous sin. If you do something bad, and impute it to another one who is innocent, your original guilt remains with the addition of the consequences of your false accusation, and the offense that you have maliciously charged on the other.

 

THE CRIME OF CALUMNY

      Slander, or accusing some body of calumny, is one of the ugliest deeds condemned by Islam. The prophet Mohammad (AS) has said: ``Whoever makes a false statement, intending to damage the reputation of a believing man or woman, or who says something untrue about them, in Dooms Day, Allah will set him upon a hill of fire, to get rid of the responsibilities of what he has forged.''