العَفوُ

PARDON

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2– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Verily Allah is all-pardoning and loves pardon.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 7005]

3– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Pardoning is incumbent upon you, for verily pardoning
[others] only increases the servant’ s honour, so pardon each other’ s faults and Allah will grant you honour.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 108, no. 5]

4– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘He who pardons much is given an increase in his lifespan.’
[A`alam al-Din, no. 315]

5– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Excuse the lapses of those who make mistakes frequently and Allah will protect you against misfortunes.’
[Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 2, p. 120]

6– Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘Regret for having pardoned someone is better and easier to bear than regret for having punished them.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 108, no. 6]

7– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Three of the noble characteristics in this world and in the Hereafter are to pardon one who has wronged you, to reconcile with one who has cut you off, and to be clement with one who has been rash towards you.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 107, no. 3]

8– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘He who rebukes
[someone for] a sin cannot pardon it.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 9567]

9– Imam al-Rida (AS), with regards to Allah’s verse in the Qur’ an “So condone with a graceful condonance”, said, ‘It is to pardon without punishing, censuring or scolding.’
[A`alam al-Din, p. 307]

10– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘He who pardons when having the power to punish, Allah will pardon him on the Day of great difficulty
[i.e. the Day of Resurrection].’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 7007]

11– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘When you are empowered to vanquish your enemy, let your pardon of him act as thanks for having been given power over him.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 11]

12– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Pardon is the zakat of triumph.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 211]

13– Imam al-Husayn (AS) said, ‘Verily the most forgiving of people is he who pardons when having the power to punish.’
[al-Durra al-Bahira, p. 29]

14– The Prophet (SAWA) said to a man who came to him complaining about his servants, ‘Pardon their faults and through it their hearts will improve.’ So he replied, ‘O Prophet of Allah, verily they vary in their bad behaviour’ , so he replied, ‘Pardon them’ , so he did.
[ Mustadrak al-Wasail, v. 9, p. 7, no. 10041]

15– Imam Ali (AS) in his will to his son al-Hasan (AS), said, ‘If any of them deserves punishment for a sin, then censure gracefully, for verily censure accompanied by pardon is more severe
[i.e. more effective] than striking when carried out by a reasonable person.’
[Tuhaf al-`Uqoul, no. 87]

16– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Pardon spoils a sinful man just as much as it can reform a decent man.’
[Kanz al-Fawa’id li al-Karajaki, v. 2, p. 182]

17– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Reward the good deed and condone the misdeed as long as it is not a breach of religion or does not weaken the authority of Islam.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, p. 4788]

18– The Prophet (SAWA), when `Aa’ isha asked him about what to supplicate on the grand Night of Ordainment (laylat al-qadr), replied, ‘You should say O Allah verily you are all-pardoning and You love to pardon, so pardon me.’
[Sunan Ibn Maaja, no. 3850]

19– It is narrated in Tanbih al-Khawatir that a bedouin once asked the Prophet, ‘O Prophet of Allah, who will hold creation to account on the Day of Resurrection’ to which he replied, ‘Allah, Mighty and Exalted.’ He said, ‘By the Lord of the Ka’ ba, we will be saved indeed!’ The Prophet asked, ‘And how is that O bedouin friend’ He replied, ‘Because the Generous One will pardon since He has the power to do so.’
[Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 1, p. 9]

20– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Verily Allah, most High, will certainly interrogate you, O community of His servants, about your actions, be they small or big, and be they open or secret. If He punishes you, then it because you have wronged yourselves, and if He pardons, then it is because He is too generous.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Letter 27]

21– Imam Ali (AS) said in his intimate supplication, ‘My Lord I think about Your pardon and my mistakes seem insignificant to me, then I remember the awesomeness of Your chastisement and my tribulation seems great indeed.’
[Amali al-Saduq, p. 73, no. 9]

22– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘O Allah expose me to Your pardon but do not expose me to Your justice.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 227]

23– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘He who keeps himself aloof from Allah’ s prohibitions is quickly embraced by Allah’ s pardon.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 90, no. 95]

24– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘But Allah tries His servants with various tribulations, renders them to worship Him through struggles, tests them with various types of distresses, all in order to extract pride out from their hearts, and to settle humbleness in their souls, and in order to make all these open doors to His grace an easy means to His pardon.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 192]

25– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) used to say, ‘O Allah verily the fact that You are worthy of pardoning
[sins] gives You the upper hand over me because of my being worthy of punishment.’
[Kashf al-Ghamma, v. 2, p. 418]