One day a man asked Mohammed, “Is gossiping a sin? Is it a bad thing?”. In his mind he did not see the need to stop this habit of speaking about others. Mohammed in his wisdom decided to show him the hidden power behind gossiping and talking ill of others.
He asked the man to go and fetch a sack of feathers. The man soon returned with a sack full of feathers. Mohammed asked him to go and place a hand full of feathers at the front door of each house in the small town. When he had finished doing this task he come back to Mohamed. The Prophet asked him to return the same time the following day.
As arranged he met Mohammed the next day. Mohammed said to him, “Go and collect all the feathers and put them back in the sack”. The man thought Mohammed had gone crazy. In frustration the man said, It is totally impossible to collect the feathers”. “Why?” asked Mohammed.
The man said, “All the feathers have blown away. They are scattered far and wide across the countryside by the winds of yesterday and today. It will only be possible to find maybe a handful of feathers only.”
Mohammed revealed that in the same fashion when you speak ill of others or falsely spread rumours or bad stories it is likewise impossible to undo the damage caused.
Like this – once spoken your words are scattered like the winds blowing in all directions nothing that you can say or do afterwards can undo the damage caused. It is not for nothing that Swami teaches us to speak softly and sweetly, and also, only when necessary.
Jai Sai Ram!!
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