Keeping secrets and trusts

Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy counts the keeping of secrets among the first of the trusts, and gives the example of money deposited with a friend that is returned on time. ¹ He condemns the spreading of what happens in homes and gatherings, and holds that what is said in a gathering is a trust that should not leave it. ²

He criticises those who spread the secrets of homes among female friends and relatives, and calls this a betrayal that ruins homes and makes light of the Hereafter. He says that some women, in their gatherings, reveal what passes between spouses (needs_source: this detail is spoken once in the recording and has not been verified). ³ He holds that curiosity divides people and draws them into the secrets of others, and that what is said in a gathering is a trust that should not leave it. ²

He recounts that Abu Bakr asked Umar whether he had found anything from him, and that Umar admitted he had heard the Prophet ﷺ mention Hafsa. He counts this as fulfilling the trust of keeping a secret (needs_source: the narration is garbled in some of its wording). ⁴

He reports the saying of the scholars that a person's chest should be a store for a secret that it does not release, then speaks of young men studying in America and of an account about Arab students, which is garbled (needs_source: the saying is not attributed to a named author in the recording, and the account is garbled). ⁵