غَيْبَةٍbackbiting in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَلا يَتَحَاشَى مِنْ غَيْبَةٍ أَوْ سَمَاعِهَا،

  and he does not avoid backbiting or listening to it.

  غَيْبَةٍ — backbiting. An indefinite noun in the 'of' (genitive) form because the 'from' before it governs it, naming the moral fault he does not avoid. Being indefinite, it presents backbiting in general; the 'or' that follows will offer a second, related fault alongside it.

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