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[SukainaRoshan]

What is a false accusation?

A false accusation is a claim or allegation of wrongdoing that is untrue and/or otherwise unsupported by facts.[1] False accusations are also known as groundless accusations or unfounded accusations or false allegations or false claims.

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A Muslim’s act of committing evils and sins is undoubtedly bad, but making a false accusation against someone of committing sins and evils is far worse than it. One of the evils which is spreading in our society like a cancer is “false accusation” as well, that is, making a false accusation against someone. False accusations of theft, bribery, black magic, fornication, breach of trust, and murder have destroyed the peace of our domestic, business and office life.

A person will be kept in pus and blood

The Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللہُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has said: The one who mentions the fault of any Muslim which is not found in him, Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ will keep him in Radgha-tul-Khabaal [رَدْغَةُ الخَبال] [i.e. the place in Hell where the pus and blood of the Hell-dwellers will collect] until the punishment for his sins ends. (Abu Dawood, vol. 3, pp. 427, Hadees 3597)

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A person will fall into disgrace and infamy

There are people who make false accusations by having the feelings of enmity towards someone, being jealous, getting rid of someone, taking revenge and attaining cheap fame. Such people make a false accusation and thereafter, they become busy with their matters, but the person against whom the false accusation has been made falls into disgrace and infamy for the rest of his life. At times, this false accusation is made due to a misunderstanding. It can be understood by a fictitious parable.

A meeting of Panchayat [a village council] was being held in a village. It was the case of buffalo theft. The teacher of the village’s school was also there. All of a sudden, a villager came panting heavily and said aloud: ‘Respected teacher! The buffalo has been found from your cattle farm.’ Having heard this, the teacher became astonished and so were the people of the Panchayat, but they did not dare say anything in front of the teacher. Therefore, all of them left one by one. The villager left too. Feeling ashamed and sad, the teacher remained seated at the same place in the state of shock. Not much time had passed when the villager came again running and said after holding the feet of the teacher: Please forgive me! That buffalo was not found from your cattle farm, but next to your cattle farm.

In the state of grief, the teacher could only say: There is no benefit even if you now make an announcement throughout the village, because people will now remember me by the name of a “thief