Control Your Tongue- An Islamic Perspective

Control Your Tongue- An Islamic Perspective

Most of the conflicts in this world arise from our speech whether they are personal, national or even international. We say something without realizing the deep effects and results leaving behind us. The roots of most of the psycho problems are in the use of uncontrolled use of tongue. We cannot imagine those deep scars we leave behind when we insult a person abusing them or using a sarcastic language. The holy Prophet Mohammad (saw) has stopped us hurting others. Many Ahadith of the Prophet (saw) ask us to avoid such words which hurt others.

In a long Hadith, the Prophet emphasized on encouraging the worshipping of God through prayers, charity, fasting and pilgrimage to Makkah (Hajj) but at the end of the Hadith, he says that all these things are useless. Then he held his tongue and said: “control it and do not be careless of using it”. One of the companions said: “Will Allah ask us about whatever we say?” The Prophet said: “Yes, many people will go to hell because of their careless and bad speech” (Ahmed-Tirmizi-Ibn e Majah).

In another Hadith the Prophet says: “The person who takes the responsibility of his tongue and his sexuality (unlawful use of sex), I take his responsibility to paradise” (Bukhari). In another Hadith, a companion asked the Prophet: “What may be most dangerous in my life”? The Prophet held his tongue and said: “This is the most dangerous” (Tirmizi). In another Hadith, the Prophet said: “The one who keeps quiet has saved himself (from troubles in this world and accountability in the Hereafter) (Ahmed-Tirmizi).

A companion asked the Prophet: “How can I save myself in the Hereafter”? The Prophet said: “Control your tongue, love your home and weep over your sins” (Tirmizi). Once the Prophet said to Abu Zar Ghaffari: “Shall I tell you two things which are easy in their burden but have a heavy weight on your deeds”? Abu Zar said:”Why not”? He said: “Try to be quiet most of the time and be good to people”.


Once the Prophet said: “It is better to be alone rather than sitting with bad people, and it is better to sit with good friends than sitting alone. To tell people good things is better than keeping quiet and it is better to keep quiet than talking nonsense and useless” (Al Behaqi). 

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