Cultivating a tolerant heart

[Ahmed]

Cultivating a Tolerant Heart

If you want to know the true value of tolerance and clemency, think about all the wrongs that you have committed towards others. Think about how desperately you need Allah to pardon you.

Allah says: “Let them forgive and overlook. Do you not wish that Allah should forgive you?” [Sûrah al-Nûr: 22]

This verse was revealed on the occasion where Abû Bakr swore not to provide for Mustah b. Athâthah due to Mustah’s involvement in slandering the Prophet’s family.

Muslim scholars and preachers need to promote this great Islamic principle. Tolerance needs to be promoted and put into practice by all members of society, by people in all walks of life. It needs to be inculcated in those who govern and those who are governed. It needs to be addressed in sermons, in the classroom, and in public lectures. Muslim scholars and preachers, in their conduct, should be living examples of tolerance. They need to inculcate this noble trait in those who listen to them.

We need to speak about tolerance with those who share our views and interests as well as with those who disagree with us and criticize us. We need to show tolerance to them.

Each of us needs to learn how to show some clemency to his or her self. Some people are so distraught by the errors that they have made in the past that they carry the burden of their mistakes and never let go of it. They need to learn to let that burden go and put their past mistakes behind them. Likewise, they need to do the same for others. Learn to give, in charity, some of your dignity to those who wrong you. You will find that your heart will grow for it. You will feel happier. You will sigh with relief and not be so stricken by what they say


http://en.islamtoday.net/artshow-414-508.htm

[Ahmed]

we have to decide ,are we just worshippers,
or are we meant to be something greater
of people who have borne hardships and insults
but whos hearts remained large enough to melt the hearts of their very mockers and enemies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Fvkksq4jo
please focus on the lesson

[Ahmed]

when the work of prophethood has been put upon us
as our elders teach us

let us remind ourselves of their trials and tribulations
did they reject and close doors
to anyone ?