IMPORTANCE OF CONCEALING THE SHORTCOMINGS OF OTHERS H 242 "Everyone in my nation will be forgiven except those who expose the shortcomings of others. Exposure includes the person who discloses his own shortcoming committed during the night which Allah had concealed. In the morning he says: 'So and so, I did such a thing last night.' During the night Allah concealed it yet in the morning he himself disclosed it." R 242 Bukhari and Muslim with a chain up to Abu Hurairah, the Prophet peace be upon him, say this.