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Imraan
MaashAllah good video
summary by Sheikh Hoblos is let all ill feeling go from the heart, forgive and forget... any ill feelings any feelings of negativity is being sourced from Shaytan himself... this is what Shaytan wants. Shaytan wants "
Hate to beat Love"
when we actually want "
Love will beat Hate"
But that should not mean people should get away with whatever form of oppression or persecution they do on others...
I quote Surah An-Nisa [4:135]
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O you who have believed, be persistently standing firm in justice, witnesses for Allah, even if it be against yourselves or parents and relatives. Whether one is rich or poor, Allah is more worthy of both. So follow not [personal] inclination, lest you not be just. And if you distort [your testimony] or refuse [to give it], then indeed Allah is ever, with what you do, Acquainted.
What is Allah swt telling us here exactly. Can someone give a detailed Tafseer on this?
Jazak Allah
Assalamu Alaikum,
Those who wrong others only wrong themselves but they perceive not. Our enemy shaythan aims to create hatred and enmity in our hearts so that we can't move on with life and that we wallow in our bitterness. These feelings then develop into wanting revenge and we start thinking of scenarios whereby we can inflict the pain we feel back on them or we begin to wish them serious injury or even death. What will this achieve? Will we move on until someone else does something and then we wish the same for them? Maybe there is some fault in our part that we are too blind to see?
However know that we will surely be tested through other people, our families, poverty, wealth and children. So Allah wants that we pardon the faults of others and ignore the foolish and ignorant. This is more pleasing to Allah so that he may also show mercy towards us for our faults and transgressions.
What if Allah were not forgive our sins because we transgressed? Should he take revenge on us or do we prefer that he forgives us? So forgive not for them but for anyone else but because it is pleasing to Allah alone. Know that we may have wronged many people that we do not even perceive but if we don't forgive then why should others? So we ask others for forgiveness and we hope Allah will also forgive us for hurting anyone that we do not know about.
That does not mean that we allow other people to walk all over us as we are entitled to maintain our honour and to defend ourselves and others against verbal and physical abuse. Walking away from the verbally abusive ignorant people is very pleasing to Allah. Let them bark for it is to their own detriment in doing so. However if we resort to the same verbal abuse back then what is the difference between them and us? We would have made ourselves equal to them. Surely we must be the better person so that we can seek a great reward instead from Allah.
However we are allowed to physically defend ourselves but we should not exceed the limits in doing so and the minimum we are allowed to do is inflict back like for like. However it is better to forgive and not to take revenge. This is because it then becomes a vicious cycle and other people may get involved and a number of people may get hurt in such an altercation.
If we have a forgiving heart towards other people and humble ourselves only to please Allah alone then that is far better for us and our reward is with Allah. Let Allah deal with them for he is the most just and with him there is a great reward for the patient without measure.