India, Sept. 13 -- While we give careful consideration to what we say to or about our superiors or those who please us, we do not stop to think of what we say to or about our inferiors of those who displease us. The Prophet has been recorded as saying: "A man sometimes says something to which he has not given due consideration and, because of this, he falls into the Fire - a distance further than that between east and west." (Al-Sunan Al-Kubra, Hadith No. 11773)

How easily people make remarks of the utmost gravity for others, without considering what they say. How easily they hurt others, damage their reputations and cause all manner of strife because they do not care to make sure that what they say is true, or trouble their imaginations...