32. Taming the Tongue

عن أبي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّهُ سمع رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول إِنَّ الْعَبْدَ لَيَتَكَلَّمُ بِالْكَلِمَةِ يَنْزِلُ بها في النَّارِ أَبْعَدَ ما بين الْمَشْرِقِ وَالْمَغْرِبِ

Abu Hurayrah (rta) reported that he heard God’s Messenger (sws) as saying: “A servant [of God] utters words because of which he sinks into the fire of Hell farther than the distance between the East and the West.”[1]

[1]. Ibid., vol. 4, 2290, (no. 2988).