Is it considered backbiting for a wife to tell the girl her husband is speaking with what he said about her, and to warn her about his lack of seriousness in marrying her?
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What you did—conveying the news to that woman—is considered backbiting (namimah) and a disclosure of someone else's secret. Backbiting is the divulgence of a secret that one dislikes being revealed, and it is forbidden and blameworthy. The dispraise of backbiting is mentioned in the Holy Quran in His (Allah's) saying: {a slanderer, going about with calumnies} (Al-Qalam:11). And in the noble Hadith: "A backbiter will not enter Paradise," and that one of those tormented in the grave was a backbiter. Therefore, you must repent and seek forgiveness for this sin.
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