Backbiting is a major sin in Islam that is forbidden in the Holy Qur’an and the Prophet’s Sunnah. It is defined as speaking about a Muslim in his absence and saying things that he would not like to have spread around or mentioned. Backbiting is considered a fatal lesson in destroying and separating the Islamic community. The prohibition of backbiting, slander, and gossip in Islam is supported by many verses in the Qur’an and hadiths. The Qur’an likens a person who backbites to one who eats the flesh of his dead brother. Backbiting is mentioned in the hadith as saying something about your brother that he dislikes. Backbiting often results from a weakness in the backbiters own soul, such as an inferiority complex. The causes of backbiting include alleviation of or response to one’s anger, jealousy, and envy. The remedy for backbiting is to know that by backbiting people, one subjects oneself to the wrath of Allah. The punishment for backbiting is that Allah will take away from ones account of good deeds and give it to the one who was hurt as an act of compensation. There are very few situations where it is permissible to speak about the faults of another person.