Three vices are here condemned in the strangest terms: 1 scandalmongering, talking or suggesting evil of men or women by word or innuendo, or behaviour, or mimicry, or sarcasm, or insult; 2 detracting from their character behind their backs, even if the things suggested are true, where the motive is evil; 3 piling up wealth, not for use and service to those who need it, but in miserly hoards, as if such hoards can prolong the miser's life or give him immortality: miserliness is itself a kind of scandal | '' Mujahid said, "Al-Humazah is with the hand and the eye, and Al-Lumazah is with the tongue |
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This means that the person finds fault with people and belittles them |