No Interference

4. Moral Concept of Islam ~ 70 ~ 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