الحرية في الأعراض

الحرية في الأعراض

Muhammad al-Khidr Husayn holds that a person naturally wants his honour kept free from attack, and that the law treats honour as sacred as blood and flesh, so no one may spread another's hidden faults (pp. 84-85). He allows an exception where preventing harm requires it, such as disclosing a man's fault in sincere counsel to someone about to marry into his family or deal with him (pp. 85-86). He also excludes a person who has openly displayed his own wrongdoing, whose case is not backbiting in the same sense (p. 85). He links a strong will for guarding one's honour to a high aim, and a weak will to decline (p. 84).