Remember that, just as backbiting is prohibited for those who utter it, it is also prohibited for those who listen to it and favor it. Anybody who hears someone about to engage in the banned form of backbiting must discourage them from performing it. It is best to withdraw from that gathering where this stuff is going on. If one has the capacity to refuse it with their tongue or to stop the backbiting by trying to change the subject, they must do so. But if one fails to do so, he has pleaded guilty to one count of disobedience (i.e. sinned). If he is obliged to remain in the company where backbiting is occurring because he is afraid of prohibiting it, or if he prohibits it but it is not acknowledged by him and he cannot identify a method to remove himself from them, he is restricted from hearing to and concentrating to the backbiting. Rather, he should remember Allah (SWT) with both his mouth and heart. Or he must concentrate on anything else to distract himself from paying hee