Editor's Comments:
Today's world is filled with cell phone talks and texts, 24x7 radio and TV programs, emails, and Social networking (Facebook, ...). It appears that we talk, text, see and hear a lot more than what it was used to be. The atmosphere is filled with all sorts of waves like wireless networks and so on.

Do we use our tongue, hands, eyes and ears for useful purposes or is it mostly talk, text and see in vain - purposes which have no benefit here or the hereafter?

Let us read the below article on The Tongue which is based on a Jumuah Khutbah.

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The Tongue

Allah T’ala says in the Holy Quran, Surah Qaaf: 

إِذْ يَتَلَقَّى الْمُتَلَقِّيَانِ عَنِ الْيَمِينِ وَعَنِ الشِّمَالِ قَعِيدٌ

مَا يَلْفِظُ مِن قَوْلٍ إِلَّا لَدَيْهِ رَقِيبٌ عَتِيدٌ

050.017 When the two Receivers receive (him), seated on the right hand and on the left,
050.018 He utters no word but there is with him an observer ready.

If every word we utter gets recorded and we may have to answer it in the hereafter, it becomes critical to control our speech.

God calls to the Home of Peace.” (The Quran, 10:25)

The very word ‘Islam’ (from the Arabic silm) connotes peace. According to a tradition of the Prophet, ‘Peace is Islam’ (Al-Bukhari). This means that peace is one of the prerequisites of Islam. Similarly, a Hadith states: A Muslim is one from whose tongue and hands people are safe. One of the attributes of God described in the Quran is ‘As-Salam’, which means peace and security.’ That is to say that God’s Being itself is a manifestation of peace. Indeed, God is Peace (Al-Bukhari). In the Quran divine guidance is likened to the paths of peace. (5:16)

According to Islam, Paradise is the ideal human abode, and is thus called the ‘Home of Peace.’ It is also said that, the people of Paradise will wish peace to one another, indicating that the social culture of the people of Paradise will be based on peace. The Quran, avers that, ‘reconciliation is best’ (4:128), and judging by the consequences, the way of peace is far better than that of confrontation. By the law of Nature, God has decreed that success will be met with only on a reconciliatory path, and not on a confrontational or a violent course of action.