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Is the questioner's suffering from her neighbor, who complains a lot and wastes her time, while she cannot read the Quran due to the neighbor's presence, and who does not respond to her advice to stop backbiting, a tribulation or a wrath from Allah? And does she bear sin or receive reward for her endurance in order to maintain kinship ties and avoid severing relations between the two families?

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What you mentioned about your neighbor's dissatisfaction with life, her engaging in backbiting, and her refusal of advice by saying, "Close your ears," are major mistakes. It is obligatory for a Muslim to be content with Allah's decree and not to be displeased, as the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "The greatest reward comes with the greatest trial. When Allah loves a people, He tests them, and whoever is pleased [with Allah's decree], for him is pleasure, and whoever is displeased, for him is displeasure." Allah has forbidden backbiting and likened the backbiter to one who eats the flesh of his dead brother, and its punishment is severe. Your kind and considerate treatment of her are good deeds, and you should not tire of advising her, for you will be rewarded in every situation.

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