The Many Dangers of the Tongue

All Praise are due to Allah. First and foremost I thank Allah, the Generous, for having finally made this humble effort a reality. We praise Him because if it were not for His Graciousness, it would never materialize, as He Himself, reminds us in a Qudsi Hadeeth: "...Know if the Nation (all mankind) were to gather together to benefit you with something, it would only benefit you with something that Allah had already prescribed for you..."

[At-Tirmidhi]

Also, the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said:

"Whoever does not show gratitude to mankind is not grateful to Allah " [Abu Dawood, Ahmad & others]

I, therefore, express my deepest gratitude to all those who contributed directly or indirectly to bringing this publication to this final format, because I would never have been able, by myself, to achieve this.

There are some people who deserve special mention because of their tremendous sacrifice and help in seeing this job through and they are: Brother 'Imran Ferouz Raghubar for completely reviewing and verifying the authenticity of its content.

Brothers: Bilaal Nantambu, Azam Mohamed, Shaheed Ahamad, Haseeb Yusuf and Nasir Jabar for proof reading it and making many valuable suggestions.

Brother Fatal Bacchus for always being willing to assist.

And, most importantly, Brother Haseeb Khan and his staff for their selflessness in affording me the total use of their computers, and to Brother Haseeb Khan specifically for his invaluable suggestions for layout and other technicalities relative to typesetting, and for his design of the cover.

May Allah, the Most High bless all of us, and may He cause the efforts of all involved to be purely for Him, and may He store its reward for us with Himself. Ameen.