O Believers When You Converse Privately Do Not Converse in Sin — Private Conversation and Its Psychological Effect

Verse: "O believers when you converse privately, do not converse in sin and transgression and disobedience of the Messenger." (58:9) — The hypocrites would whisper in the presence of believers about things that would grieve them — making them think it concerned them with evil. The verse was revealed to prohibit whispering in sin and direct private conversation toward good. "Private conversation is from Satan" (58:10) — whispering that grieves a believer without cause = satanic. The difference between forbidden private conversation (sin and transgression) and permitted (good and taqwa). Lesson: privacy is a right, but whispering in front of others about things that grieve them is blameworthy character.