The Times When Backbiting and Criticizing...

The Times When Backbiting and Criticizing  is Permissible

According to The ‘Ulama of Islam

Imam an-Nawawi stated:

          You should know that ghibah (backbiting) is allowed for genuine Divinely Legislated reasons and it is not possible to do it except with these reasons, they are six which are:

1.     Complaining when wronged.

2.     When seeking help in order to change an evil and to make a sinful person return to the truth.

3.     When seeking a fatwa.

4.     When warning Muslims from evil and giving them advice.

5.     That the person being spoken about is doing the sin or innovation openly.

6.     When defining a person if the person is well-known by a particular attribute such as al-‘A’ma (the blind one), al-‘A’raj (the one with the limp), al-Asamm (the deaf), this is permissible in order to define them.

“Be A Serious Salafi” pg.108