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An-Nur 24:16 ولولا اذ سمعتموه قلتم ما يكون لنا ان نتكلم بهاذا سبحانك هاذا بهتان عظيم ١٦

24:16
وَلَوۡلَآ
إِذۡ
سَمِعۡتُمُوهُ
قُلۡتُم
مَّا
يَكُونُ
لَنَآ
أَن
نَّتَكَلَّمَ
بِهَٰذَا
سُبۡحَٰنَكَ
هَٰذَا
بُهۡتَٰنٌ
عَظِيمٞ
١٦
And why, no sooner than you had heard it, did you not say: "It becomes us not even to utter such a thing? Holy are You (O Allah)! This is a mighty calumny."
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Ibn Kathir (Abridged)

Further Discipline

This is further discipline, in addition to the command to think well of people, i.e., if something unbefitting is mentioned about good people, then one should think well of them, and not feel towards them anything but good. Then if a person has any unsuitable thoughts about them, i

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Further Discipline

This is further discipline, in addition to the command to think well of people, i.e., if something unbefitting is mentioned about go

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Chapter 24, Page 351, Juz 18

11. Surely those who invented this calumny are a band from among you. Do not deem this incident an evil for you; nay, it is good for you. Every one of them has accumulated sin in proportion to his share in this guilt; and he who has the greater part of it shall suffer a mighty chastisement. 12. When you heard of it, why did the believing men and women not think well of their own folk and say: "This is a manifest calumny?" 13. Why did they not bring four witnesses in support of their accusation? Now that they have brought no witnesses, it is indeed they who are liars in the sight of Allah. 14. Were it not for Allah's Bounty and His Mercy unto you in the world and in the Hereafter a grievous chastisement would have seized you on account of what you indulged in. 15. (Just think, how wrong you were) when one tongue received it from another and you uttered with your mouths something you knew nothing about. You deemed it to be a trifle while in the sight of Allah it was a serious matter. 16. And why, no sooner than you had heard it, did you not say: "It becomes us not even to utter such a thing? Holy are You (O Allah)! This is a mighty calumny." 17. Allah admonishes you: If you are true believers, never repeat the like of what you did. 18. Allah clearly expounds to you His instructions. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. 19. Verily those who love that indecency should spread among the believers deserve a painful chastisement in the world and the Hereafter. Allah knows, but you do not know. 20. Were it not for Allah's Bounty and His Mercy unto you, and that Allah is Most Forgiving and Wise, (the evil that had been spread among you would have led to terrible consequences).

- A. Maududi (Tafhim commentary)

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