The evil coming from the gossip

It is calmer in the company of a thief, murderer or adulterer than in a society spreading gossip [gaybat]. You can be saved from those through mindfulness, strength or wisdom, and from this [gossip] you will not be saved even if you leave his country, or even if you die.

The righteous predecessors said: “A gossip and a liar spoils [relations between people, speaks gossip, etc …] for an hour as long as the sorcerer cannot spoil during a year”.