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Namima refers to mentioning someone's words to others in order to ruin their friendly relationships. However, it is not limited to speech and includes writing and making gestures as well. Disclosing some issues a person does not want other people to know is also called namima. The person who mentions someone's words to another in order to ruin their friendly relationships is called [[Nammam]]. In some cases, namima accompanies with disclosing a person's secrets, [[slander]], [[hypocrisy]], [[envy]], [[lying]] or [[backbiting]].
Namima refers to mentioning someone's words to others in order to ruin their friendly relationships. However, it is not limited to speech and includes writing and making gestures as well. Disclosing some issues a person does not want other people to know is also called namima. The person who mentions someone's words to another in order to ruin their friendly relationships is called [[Nammam]]. In some cases, namima accompanies with disclosing a person's secrets, [[slander]], [[hypocrisy]], [[envy]], [[lying]] or [[backbiting]].


== Differences with Sa'aya ==
=== Differences with Si'aya ===
[[Sa'aya]] (tale-bearing) is a kind of namima. Mentioning someone's words to a person they are afraid of (such as kings) is called sa'aya. Naraqi considered sa'aya the worst kind of namima and regarded its wrongness greater than other kinds of namima. He believed that sa'aya originates from [[greed]] and [[envy]].
[[Si'aya]] (tale-bearing) is a kind of namima. Mentioning someone's words to a person they are afraid of (such as kings) is called si'aya. [[Muhammad Mahdi al-Naraqi|Al-Naraqi]] considered si'aya the worst kind of namima and regarded its wrongness greater than other kinds of namima. He believed that si'aya originates from [[greed]] and [[envy]].


== In the Qur'an and Hadiths ==
== In the Qur'an and Hadiths ==
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