Abdulfattah Popoola’s Reviews > Guarding the Tongue > Status Update

So the reality of gossiping is: spreading what is supposed to be private, and destroying the concealment of what he hates to have exposed.

Imaam Ash-Shaafi'ee said to his student Rabee': "O Rabee'! Do not speak about things that do not concern you, for indeed every time that you speak a word, it takes control of you and you do not have control of it!"

Imaam Ash-Shafi'ee said: "When one desires to talk, then it is upon him to think before he speaks. If there is beneficial good in what he will say, then he should speak. And if he has doubt about that, then he must not speak until he clears that doubt (by making his speech good)."