4) The Right of the Hearing

[Ameer ALwali]

4) The Right of the Hearing

The right of hearing is to keep it pure from listening to backbiting (ghiba) and listening to that to which it is unlawful to listen.

4. حق السمع

وَأَمَّا حَقُّ السَّمْعِ فَتَنْزِيهُهُ عَنْ سَماع الغيبةِ و سَماعِها لا يحِلّ سَماعه.

[الرحى]

The right of the possessor of authority
(sultan) is that you know that God has
made you a trial (fitna) for him. God is
testing him through the authority He
has given him over you. You should
not expose yourself to his displeasure,
for thereby you cast yourself by your
own hands into destruction and
become his partner in his sin when he
brings evil down upon you.ب