THE IMPORTANCE OF RESTRAINING OUR TONGUE ACCORDING TO THE QURAN: AN IMPLEMENTATION AMONG THE STUDENTS

Mohamed Akhiruddin Ibrahim¹* Zulkifli Haji Mohd Yusoff ², Muhammad Mus-’ab Anas Mohd Anas³ Mohd Zohdi Mohd Amin⁴ and Fatin Wahidah Safiai^5
1 Dr, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Quranic and Sunnah Studies, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, MALAYSIA, akhiruddin@usim.edu.my
² Professor, Dr, Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya, MALAYSIA
³ Dr, Senior Lecturer, Tamhidi Centre, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, MALAYSIA
⁴ Dr, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Quranic and Sunnah Studies, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, MALAYSIA
⁵ Student, Faculty of Quranic and Sunnah Studies, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, MALAYSIA
*Corresponding author

Abstract
We use our tongue to communicate with people. But sometimes, accidentally, our word used might be hurtful to others especially when we are using foul language or bad words in delivering a message or advising other people so that they will be not boring to listen to us. Unfortunately, this is the sad truth that happen among the preachers especially in this country. Surprisingly, we can hear and see that some of the Malaysian preachers using a bad words while giving their lecture to the society. For instance, by calling others as fool, scoffing at people and humiliating other people. This is a bad example to others since they are seen as good example to the society even though they might be only joking for the purpose of attracting an audience. Aren’t they conscious about the prohibitions in using their tongue as mention in the Surah Al Hujurat verse 11 and 12? If they do know, why they are not guarding their tongue in uttering words? The objective of this research is to identify the implementation toward the importance of restraining the tongue in Surah Al Hujurat verse 11 and 12 among students of Islamic knowledge. Thus, as a subject for this research this research, we focusing on the third year students from Quranic and Sunnah Studies (QS) in Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM), since they will bring the Islamic image after they are graduated soon. Furthermore, the society might be referring to them as a role model and inviting them to deliver a lecture at their residential area. Thus, they also need to be an extra careful, on their behavior, because people may look negatively on Islamic teaching if they saw a disrespectable attitude from the preacher. On this research, we used questionnaire method to collect the data and analyze it according to the respondents feedback. The result shows that there are some factors which contribute to the misuse of tongue among respondents. The researchers also provides some recommendations to curb this problem among respondents.

Keywords: Tongue, Quran, Islamic ethic, moral, akhlaq.