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So let us take the situation where you get up and tell your friend that you got to buy milk from a particular shop.
Your friend says that do not do that - his milk is dilute. In this case your friend stands absolved of gheebah.

This is what I've always understood.

To talk with no good reason is a sin in itself.
Let us separate that from the present discussion.

Thank you for pointing this out.

This thread was created by me me because I've tried to advise Muslims who are around me not to bring up that, "Person A is an admitted (insert some type of sinful lifestyle)" for no reason, but I did not have a solid basis upon which to give this advice, only what I have been taught by elders growing up.