If a person falls into badmouthing or gossip, he must return to Allah Almighty, repent to Him, and ask forgiveness from Him, and he should ask to be pardoned from the person he had been gossiping about. The Prophet pbuh said: “He who has wronged his brother, concerning his honor or anything else, let him ask for his pardon today before there comes a time when there will be neither a dinar nor a dirham. If he has good deeds, an amount equivalent to the wrong he has done will be taken from his good deeds (and given to the one whom he has wronged). If he has no good deeds, then some of that person’s bad deeds will be taken and loaded upon him.” agreed upon.
If a person fears for himself from the person who he had bad-mouthed, he should pray for him and talk about his good qualities in the councils in which he has spoken ill about him.
اذا وقع الانسان في الغيبة او النميمة، فان عليه ان يرجع الى الله سبحانه وتعالى، وأن يتوب إليه، وأن يتحلل من الشخص الذي اغتابه، لحديث الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم : ( من كانت له عند اخيه مظلمة من عرضه أو شئ فليتحلله اليوم قبل أن لا يكون دينار ولا درهم، وإن كان له عمل صالح أخذ منه بقدر مظلمته، وإن لم يكن له حسنات أخذ من سيئات صاحبه فحمل عليه) متفق عليه.
وفي حال خشي الإنسان على نفسه من الشخص الذي اغتابه، فعليه ان يدعو له، وأن يذكره بما فيه من الخير في مجالسه التي اغتابه فيها.