Moral Concept of Islam

insists that man’s speech should have, an agreeable effect on the hearer. 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 wrongdoers, 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 mutual complaints and bitterness. If these complaints were expressed before the persons thought responsible, the whole of society would be turned into a battlefield. In such a situation man should adopt the same course of action as that taken by nature, namely, the diversion of all excessive emotions to God’s account and thereafter the devotion of oneself to positive social uplift. Nature teaches us to keep with us always a ‘diversion pool’ to which may be diverted the negative emotions occurring in our hearts towards others, thus enabling us to lead a balanced life.