Abu Hatim Ar-Razi (d. 275 AH) – advised,
الواجب على العاقل لزوم السلامة بترك التجسس عَن عيوب الناس مع الاشتغال بإصلاح عيوب نفسه
“It is an obligation for the sane person of intellect, to traverse the path of safety, in that he must abandon tajassus (to seek and expose) the faults of others, and instead should occupy himself by rectifying the faults within himself,
فإن من اشتغل بعيوبه عَن عيوب غيره أراح بدنه ولم يتعب قلبه
For verily, whomsoever keeps himself occupied with (improving) his own faults instead of (seeking and gossiping) the faults of others, he will have rested and relaxed his body (from useless activities) and from exhausting his heart (with diseases such as envy and arrogance)
فكلما اطلع على عيب لنفسه هان عَلَيْهِ مَا يرى مثله من أخيه
For every time he meets a fault within himself, he will humble himself when he sees that fault in his brother (i.e. will empathize with his struggle to rectify that fault)
وإن من اشتغل بعيوب الناس عَن عيوب نفسه عمى قلبه وتعب بدنه وتعذر عَلَيْهِ ترك عيوب نفسه
And verily, whoever busies himself with (seeking, exposing and gossiping) of the faults of other people instead of his own faults, then his heart will be blinded, his body will be weak, in fact he will keep on making excuses to abandon rectifying his own faults!
وإن من أعجز الناس من عاب الناس بما فيهم وأعجز منه من عابهم بما فيه
Verily, the weakest amongst mankind are those who busy themselves with faults of others; and weaker still are those who busy themselves with others faults while they themselves have those faults!
من عاب الناس عابوه
The one who exposes others faults, will himself be exposed (by others)
ولقد أحسن الذي يقول
Verily, beautiful indeed are the words of the one who said,
... إذا أنت عبت الناس عابوا وأكثروا
... عليك وأبدوا منك مَا كان يستر
“If you were to expose the faults of other people, they will in fact increase in those faults to you,
And then they will expose your faults which were previously hidden”
[Raudhatul-‘Uqala wa Nuzhatul-Fudhala’]
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