Forgiveness

One day there lived a king and queen with their two handsome sons and their small daughter with beautiful golden hair, whom everyone who saw her loved. To celebrate her arrival, the queen invited fairies from all over the world and held a lavish feast. The fairies told the queen that Rosette would cause great misfortune to her brothers and they might meet their doom because of her—this is what appears about your little daughter. Unfortunately, we have nothing better. The king and queen were stricken with grief. ...

Our merciful religion, so we learned from it to be compassionate in our dealings with people, for we do not answer them with evilness, but we answer them with kindness, for it is the most effective way to defend from their evil with good deeds, and we strive against their evil with our deeds, so that they will not succeed in harming us with their evil, and the Messenger of God, peace be upon him, has forbidden us from oppressing them, he has forbidden us from harming them, and he has forbidden us from being aggressive with them, and we must be good to them as they are to us, so that God may love us. ...

Frequently, we fight over small matters that do not deserve the struggle. With the passage of time, they grow and take a larger space than they deserve. The matter that makes its resolution an affair not easy, and thus we must try to find solutions before the problem intensifies and worsens. Perhaps the best solution can be in changing that perspective with which we look at the problem. Once there lived in one of the distant villages two neighboring brothers. The older was named Jamīl and the younger was named Jāksūn. The two were accustomed to living in love and happiness with each other’s company. Each of them possessed a farm with the other’s help. For forty years, the brothers lived in happiness and peace, exchanging agricultural labor and tasks and trade. ...