Backbiting and slander

Recently, a professor told me that backbiting is a serious matter in our institution. Any reasonable man knows that backbiting is not only serious but also against the Islamic teaching. Working in an institution which upholds the word Islamic- it is challenging, as it is not easy to reflect as what our name carries! Backbiting not only make people or community divided but we become more suspicious towards each others. Nobody is perfect but we aim to improve our deeds everyday by performing solat five times a day. As a muslim we are encouraged to be forgiving. Life is too short for us to backbiting. In some circumstances, backbiting may amount to slander. At the end of the day, we hope not only to preserve our relationship with the Creater, Allah s.w.t but also with other mankind. Insya Allah.