الوَعدُ

THE PROMISE

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3– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The promise of the believer is a debt and the promise of the beliver is like a pledge.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 6870]

4– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 2183]

5– Imam al-Rida (AS) said, ‘We, the ahl al-bayt, see what we have promised as a debt upon us just as the Prophet (SAWA) used to do.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 75, p. 97, no. 20]

6– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘A responsible person is free until he makes a promise.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 336]

7– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The promise is one of two bondages; and fulfilment of the promise is one of the two freedoms.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 1646-1647]

8– Abu al-Humaysa’ said, ‘I pledged allegiance to the Prophet (SAWA) before he set out
[for a place], and I had an appointment with him in a particular place, but I forgot that day and the next, so I came to him on the third day, so the Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Young man, you have brought great difficulty to me, I have been waiting here for three days.’
[Makarim al-Akhlaq, v. 1 p. 57 no. 39]

9– Imam al-Rida (AS) said to al-Ja`fari, ‘Do you know why Ishmael was named the one who was true to his promise?’
[He said], ‘I said, ‘No, I do not know.’ He said, ‘He promised to meet a man and he sat waiting for him for one whole year.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 75, p. 94, no. 10]

10– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Do not make a promise that you are not confident of fulfilling.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 10297]

11– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Do not make a promise to your brother that you are incapable of fulfilling.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 250, no. 94]

12– Imam al-Kazim (AS) said to a man who said to him, ‘Promise me’ – ‘How can I promise you when that which I do not hope for is more probable for me than what I do hope for?!’
[al-Faqih, v. 3, p. 165, no. 3610]

13– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘The promise of a believer to his brother is a vow for which there is no
[prescribed] penance, so he who breaks a promise first disappoints Allah, and subjects himself to His discontentment, as Allah says: "O you who have faith! Why do you say what you do not do?"
[ Qur’an 61:2]
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 363, no. 1]

14– Imam al-Kazim (AS) said, ‘When you make a promise to children then fulfil that promise to them, because they perceive you as the one who provides them with the means of subsistence, and Allah is not angered by anything the way He is angered by
[matters pertaining to] the rights of women and children.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 104, p. 73, no. 23]