Listen to This Before You Gossip – An Anatolian Tale: The Pillow Feathers
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"Did you hear what's going on in their house?" "Don't tell anyone, but..." To destroy the peace of a home, sometimes a single sentence whispered through a crack in the door is enough. We tell a story they tell in Anatolia: a woman who spread gossip about her neighbor regrets it and goes to the town's old hodja. The hodja gives her strange advice: "Take a feather pillow, tear it open on the hill, and scatter the feathers to the wind." We talk about the hodja's real lesson and the atonement for gossip.📖 Sources in the video:• Anatolian folk tale: The pillow feathers (the gossiping woman and the town's hodja).• Quran, Surah al-Hujurat, verse 12.• Hadith (Abu Hurairah, Muslim): "Do you know what backbiting is?"• Advice attributed to Haji Bektash Veli: "Guard hand, tongue, and loins."• Arabic Quran text on screen: Tanzil.net (Uthmani).💬 A word you heard with "Don't tell anyone" – how many people did it reach afterwards? Tell us in the comments; no one is judged here.May God keep you.
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