Bengaluru, May 27: Days after rumours about her death went viral on social media, centenarian environmentalist Saalumarada Thimmakka has urged the people not to forward messages without verifying them.
On Saturday morning, she made her way to the Police Commissioner’s office in the city with her supporters, to lodge a complaint with the cybercrime cell against those who had “killed her” in the online space.
The complaint was filed by her foster son B.N. Umesh, who sought a probe into the messages and to ensure such messages are not circulated online.
Speaking on the occasion Thimmakka said: “I am hurt by the messages. People should not spread baseless rumours. They should verify the facts before passing a message.”
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Quran gives this piece of healthy life tips...
“O you who believe! If a Faasiq (liar – evil person) comes to you with any news, verify it, lest you should harm people in ignorance, and afterwards you become regretful for what you have done.” (49:6)
The question then to ask is that how should a Muslim deal with gossiping or how can he or she keep it away and resist its evil implications. The answer can be easily inferred from the following hadith of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in which He said:
“When man wakes up in the morning each day, all his body parts warn his tongue saying: ‘Fear Allah with regards to us, for we are under your mercy; if you are upright we will be upright and if you are crooked, we will be crooked.” (Tirmidhi)
The tongue of a person is in the center of it all. It is with this tongue that a person spreads rumors and if this tongue is under the control then the ultimate result would be a person refraining from spreading of rumors. Moreover, one also needs to avoid sitting in the company of liars from whom one hears only false rumors which are then spread by the tongue. Therefore, in addition to controlling one’s own tongue, one should also avoid spreading of rumor by verifying its source first and then telling it to others.
In a nutshell, the spreading of rumor is never trivial or casual that could be done for fun, rather it is always grave and has far reaching implications. Islam detests it, therefore, a Muslim must refrain from spreading of rumor, which can only be done if a Muslim when hearing a news verifies it firsts and then makes sensible use of his or her tongue.
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