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The Triple Filter!
Jenna
03/13/02 at 04:01:14
Assalaamu'Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh!

This was sent to me, I do not know if this really happened, but the story is one we can all learn from!! InshaAllah!

May Allah help and forgive us all!!
Allah huma Ameen!!
Your Sis in Islaam
Jenna

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The Triple Filter!

During the golden Abbasid period, one of the scholars in Baghdad, the
capital of Muslim caliphate at that time, was reputed to hold
knowledge in high esteem. One day an acquaintance met the great
scholar and said, "Do you know what I just heard about your friend?"

"Hold on a minute," the scholar replied. "Before telling me anything
I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter
Test."

"Triple filter?"

"That's right," the scholar continued. "Before you talk to me about
my friend it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what
you're going to say. That's why I call it the triple filter test. The
first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you
are about to tell me is true?"

"No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it and..."

"All right," said the scholar. "So you don't really know if it's true
or not. Now let's try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is
what you are about to tell me about my friend something good?" "No,
on the contrary......"

"So," the scholar continued, "you want to tell me something bad about
him, but you're not certain it's true. You may still pass the test
though, because there's one filter left: the filter of Usefulness. Is
what you want to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me?"

"No, not really."

"Well," concluded the scholar, "if what you want to tell me is
neither true nor good nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?"

"O ye who believe! Let not some men among you laugh at others: It may
be that the (latter) are better than the (former): Nor let some women
laugh at others: It may be that the (latter are better than the
(former): Nor defame nor be sarcastic to each other, nor call each
other by (offensive) nicknames: Ill-seeming is a name connoting
wickedness, (to be used of one) after he has believed: And those who
do not desist are (indeed) doing wrong."  [Surah al-Hujurat 49.012 ]
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NS
Re: The Triple Filter!
iimaan
03/13/02 at 05:05:48
[quote author=Jenna_Umm Muffin link=board=bebzi;num=1016010074;start=0#0 date=03/13/02 at 04:01:14].. but the story is one we can all learn from!! InshaAllah
[/quote]

Bismillahirahmanirrahiem

[slm]   :-), absolutely!   :-[ What a great lifestrategy to protect yourself from gossiping   :-[!

Ma'a salaama, your sis.
Re: The Triple Filter!
flyboy_nz
03/13/02 at 05:16:09
asalaamu alaikum,

I think its great to be able to put principles into practice.. the triple filter eh? hey I like it.. I'm gonna use it!  :)  We need more filters like it...like a filter for things that lead to procrastination- anyone got a filter for that??

wasalaam
;-)Ahmed
Re: The Triple Filter!
bhaloo
03/13/02 at 09:00:15
[slm]

This was already put up here.

http://www.jannah.org/cgi-bin/madina/YaBB.pl?board=library;action=display;num=1015936934


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