Religious Studies: Islam 97Forgiveness
Forgiveness is a great virtue. If someone inflicts pain to some one
else, causes oppression, then in spite of having the capability of
taking revenge, if he lets that person go without taking revenge
rather shows kindness to him, we call it forgiveness.
Human beings are "Ashraful Makhlukat." This means the best of the
creations. So men are very much dear to Allah. Allah loves men.
Men get involved very often in sins and mistakes at the instigation
of Saitan (devil). After that when he repents, he prays to Allah for
forgiveness. They take oath not to be involved in any sin in future.
Then the Merciful Allah forgives him.
If somebody does injustice to us, oppresses us, causes pain to us, we
shall remember the forgiveness of Allah the Merciful. If somebody
confesses his crime, we shall forgive him. We shall behave well
with him. We shall advice him to be good. We shall pray to Allah
for him. If someone gets involved in misdeeds out of poverty, we
shall try to remove his poverty away.
Allah is Forgiver. He likes forgiveness. Allah loves them who
suppresses anger and forgives others, but in spite of forgiving again
and again, if some body commits crime recurrently, then he should
be treated strictly. He should be punished. Then he will not commit
sin again. The others will not dare to inflict pain to others
unnecessarily. Then there will be peace in society. This is the
teaching of Islam.