Guarding your tongue from all Haaram

The Messenger of Allah - SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam - said, Guard your tongue, stay
in your homes and weep over your sins. - Related by Ibn Mubarak in az-Zuhd
(no.134), Musnad Ahmed bin Hambal (5/259), Sunan at-Tirmidhi (2531) and
authenticated by al-Albaanee in as-Saheehah (no.890)
Imaam Ahmad - rahimahullaah - mentioned in his Musnad on the authority of Anas
radiAllahu anhu who relates that the Prophet - SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam - said The
eemaan of Allahs servant will not be upright until his heart is upright and his heart will
not be upright until his tongue is upright. - Also mentioned in al-Mundhiri (3/234) and
al-Iraqee in al-Ihya (8/1539)
Most of the people who will enter the fire, will do so due to their tongues
So a Muslim must beware and learn to imprison the tongue from vain talk,

Sahl ibn Saad - radiAllahu' anhu - reported that the Messenger of Allah said, Whoever
guards what is between his jaws and legs. I shall guarantee him paradise. - Saheeh
al-Bukhari (8/481). A similar narration can be found in Muwatta of Imam Malik (56/11)
and Sunan at-Tirmidhi.

Abu Moosa al-Asharee - radiAllahu' anhu - said, O Messenger of Allah, which of the
Muslims are better? The Messenger of Allah said, Those who do not harm the
Muslims with their tongues and hands. - Saheeh al-Bukhari (1/10)
Narrated by Mughira bin Shuba - radiAllahu' anhu - : The Prophet - SallAllahu 'alaihi
wa sallam - said,
Allah has forbidden for you:(1) to be undutiful to your mothers, (2) to bury your
daughters alive, (3) not to pay the rights of the poor and others (i.e. charity) and (4) to
beg of men. And Allah has hated for you: (1) Qil and Qal (sinful and useless talk, like
backbiting or that one talks too much about others), (2) to ask too many questions (in
disputed religious matters, etc.), (3) to waste your wealth (by extravagance with lack
of wisdom and thinking). - Sahih al-Bukhari
Also the Messenger of Allah - SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam - said, Most of the sins of
the children of Aadam are from the tongue. - At-Tabaraanee (3/87/1-2). Authenticated
by al-Haafidh al-Mundhiri in al-Targheeb
Allah says in the begining of Soorah al-Mumineen, Indeed successful are the
Believers, those who in their prayer have Khushoo (fear of Allah) and those who refrain
from vain talk. [Soorah Mumineen : 1-3]
Allah mentions that refraining from vain talk is a sign of the successful believers.
Allah also mentions refraining from vain talk after he mentions al-Khushoo. This is
because too much talk makes the heart hard. It is not possible to reach the level of
Khushoo (fear of Allah) unless one refrains from vain talk.

The Tongue Expresses what is in the Heart:

If a person is good, it reflects in their saying. Allah has made it very easy for the
tongue to move, and it is not difficult to realize that a persons tongue moves much
more as if compared to the limbs. So if a person is not careful about what he says,
even a single saying of his can invalidate his actions. It is for this reason that the
whole body warns the tongue saying, Fear Allah concerning us, for we are
(dependant) upon you. If you are upright then we will be upright and if you are corrupt
then we will be corrupt. - Sunan at-Tirmidhi (1912), Mishkaat (4838) and Riyaadh asSaleheen (2/1521)