The Call of the Quran
4. Moral Concept of Islam
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FORGIVENESS
The misbehaviour of Joseph’s step-brothers towards
him was deeply tormenting for his father Jacob.
Naturally, he had serious grounds for complaint
against Joseph’s brothers. But rather than express
his grief to the wrong-doers, Jacob turned in
anguish to God, although his anguish had been
caused by men.
This diversion of negative reaction away from the
blameworthy and towards the Almighty is
paralleled in the physical world in a number of
explicit ways. Seasonal rain-water is usually
excessive. If the entire amount of this water stayed
in the fields and inhabited areas, it would cause
widespread disaster. But this does not happen, for
the excessive amount of water is directed by nature
into rivulets and rivers, leaving behind the water
actually required.
Subscribing to the same law of nature in social life,
man should divert all of the detrimental elements of
his emotions towards God.
Community life leads, among other things, to
