Forgiveness

• Thus saith the Lord, "Verily those who are patient in adversity and forgive wrongs, are the doers of excellence."

•  Once Muhammad was asked, "O Apostle of God!" How many times are we to forgive our servant's faults?" He was silent. Again the questioner asked, and Muhammad gave no answer. But when the man asked a third time, he said, "Forgive your servants seventy times day."

•  There is no man who woundeth and pardoneth the giver of the wound but God will exalt his dignity and dimish his faults.

•  That man is nearest to God, who pardoneth, when he had in his power him who would have injured him.

•  Do not say, that if the people do good to us, we will do good to them; and if the people oppress us, we will oppress them; but determine that if people do you good, you will do good to them; and if they oppress you, you will not oppress them.