Forgiving, a Way for Living Better From the Point of View of Quran; A Research

The human being lives stressfully in the world full of hatred and enmity. We can replace the negative feelings such as anger, hatred and retaliation with positive feelings by pardon and forgiveness.

The aim of this study is to reflect upon the verses related to pardon and extract the points from these verses.

By studying the verses related to pardon reflectively and reviewing several related articles, various meanings, reasons, cases, techniques, the effects of pardon and the relationship between the pardon and good life have been extracted.

Pardon often means forgiveness. But in verse 219 of Al-Baqara Sure, and verse 199 of Al-Araf Surah, it means balance and moderation. Of the reasons and also the aspects of techniques of pardon, we can mention ignoring the human’s sins by God, forgiveness of God in spite of being the most powerful, kindness and being softhearted, trusting in Allah, and receiving the position of the patients. The cases of forgiveness include forgiving the unaware people, children and wives, granting the opportunity of reconstruction, pay the blood money, the oppression of others, ignoring wife by husband, retaliation, and financing (like giving and taking dowry). The effects of forgiving include benefitting from the kindness and forgiveness of Allah, his mercy, and friendship with human, receiving the position of the patients, the virtuous, the benefactors and repelling bad events. In some verses, the everlasting world is mentioned which suggests the relationship between the forgiving and good life. Considering the right forgiving is important. Forgiving is valuable while being in power.

One of the most important perceptions in Islamic culture is forgiving. By applying forgiving rightly in this blatant life, we can live in immunity..