The Speeches and Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad

The Backbiter

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful.

Woe to every backbiter, slanderer!
Who hath heaped up riches and counted them over!
He thinketh that his riches have made him everlasting:
Nay! he shall surely be cast into Blasting Hell.
And what shall teach thee what Blasting Hell is?
The fire of God kindled,
Which reaches over the hearts;
Verily it is closed over them [like a tent],
With stays well-stretched.

(civ.)