Tolerance Friday, 19 August 2011 02:09

By Ramzi Al Saeed

How beautiful to see the intimacy and love between the fasters. The manners of fasting person should be based on tolerance and he should know that if some one harms him he should say “I am fasting”. Even he should know that he is in a high status of faith, because in the community of faith, the treatment of its members should not be based on culpability, accountability, self-victory, and the redress in every small andlargething, rather it should be based on forgiveness, disregard, pardon and patience.

That is what the texts of Islam urged, and it’s best high guidance urged on him, the pious and responder person to the guidance of his religion is one who gives pardon and forgiveness, and the forgiveness is a good human habit that was praised by the texts of Holy Quran and made the people who have this habit among the finest and pious models in Islam, by bringing them in the company of benefactors who won the love of Allah and His pleasure.

Allah Almighty says in the Holy Quran: “(Who control anger and who give pardon to people Allah loves good-doers)” It is because they controlled their anger and did not bear a grudge and hatred, rather they freed from hatred and grudge, and walked in the prospects of pardon, forgiveness and tolerance, so they got the comfort, purity, and beatitude of soul, and greater than it, they won the love of Allah and His good pleasure.

If you think about the concept of tolerance you will find it fresh in the tongue, easy in speaking, with a beautiful ring to hear, but heavy on the soul. The mind accepts it as a word but finds hardness and difficulties in applying it. In fact, what prevents many people from applying it? And from accepting it as a habit? As they prefer cruelty, intensity, anger and pride on this world, the forgiver is generous, and this generosity comes from the pious soul, that is wide, does not narrow of the mistakes of people, and does not disturb by the lapses of souls and does not irritate to their provocation.

He is generous because the generosity is making bid at the time of distress, and intensity here when the people toughen in their insults and shamefully criticizing others, then he meets this situation with the bid of tolerance and forgiveness. He rises upon them by this act and occupies a high position by this nature that the people feel jealous.

Tolerance is a beautiful word in all languages, traditions and nations, and it means to forgive the person who did you wrong, or crossed his limits, or disagreed with you in an immoral way.

This way a great moral value, and a victory for the soul of goodness and morality in human being against the soul of evil to respond to the temptations of Satan is understood, and that is a basis of a deal that is supposed to govern the relationship of people. The insistence on refusing it is the insistence on self-harm before others, the insistence on personal suffering in the face of a dark heart, the amnesty, pardon and forgiveness are high uphill, only those can reach them who opened their hearts to the teachings of Islam.

Their hearts mixed with its tolerant morals, so they opted for what Allah has prepared from forgiveness, reward and recognise what the hearts thought of the love of victory and revenge and redress.  The Holy Quran has made a most brilliant way to push human soul to this difficult high place when it stated for us through its clear verses, and it is that the person who has suffered from aggression has the right to take revenge and prevail for himself, because the penalty of bad is bad as same, but it did not make the victim of aggression free to take emotional revenge or for self victory from his brother, it took his hand gently to the uphill of patience, forgiveness and tolerance, and assured him that to reach this high place is among recommended things.

Whoever forgives and makes reconciliation, his reward is on Allah, He does not like the unjust. These are clear meanings of Quran from the assets of religion, that show his original Islamic character, that Islam prescribed for its followers, and urged on it before the philosophy in modern thought was created, and it is the character of a believer when the guidance of Prophet (PBUH) combined in its indigenising in them, hence the believer is required in such situations to forgive beautifully.   

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