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1402 - فَضلُ سَترِ العُيوبِ‏

1402. THE VIRTUE OF CONCEALING FAULTS

4715.رسولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللَّه عليه وآله : مَن سَتَرَ عَلى‏ مُؤمِنٍ خِزيَةً فكأنَّما أحيا مَوؤودَةً مِن قَبرِها .1

4715.The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘He who conceals a fellow believer’s shameful act is as if he has revived a newborn girl buried-alive2 from her grave.’3

4716.رسولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللَّه عليه وآله : مَن عَلِمَ مِن أخيهِ سَيِّئَةً فسَتَرَها ، سَتَرَ اللَّهُ عَلَيهِ يَومَ القِيامَةِ .4

4716.The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘He who knows a fellow brother’s evil deed and conceals it [from others], Allah will conceal his faults on the Day of Resurrection.’5

4717.الإمامُ الباقرُ عليه السلام : يَجِبُ لِلمُؤمِنِ عَلَى المُؤمِنِ أن يَستُرَ عَلَيهِ سَبعينَ كَبيرَةً !6

4717.Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘It is the duty of a believer towards a fellow believer to conceal seventy of his grave sins!’7

4718.تنبيه الخواطر : رُوِيَ أنّ عيسى‏ عليه السلام مَرَّ والحَوارِيّونَ عَلى‏ جيفَةِ كَلبٍ ، فقالَ الحَوارِيّونَ : ما أنتَنَ ريحَ هذا الكَلبَ ! فقالَ عيسى‏ عليه السلام : ما أشَدَّ بَياضَ أسنانِهِ!8

4718. It is narrated in Tanbih al-Khawatir that Prophet Jesus (AS) was passing with his disciples by the corpse of a dog, when the disciples exclaimed, ‘What an awful stench this dog has!’ to which Prophet Jesus (AS) retorted, ‘How white are his teeth!’9

1.كنزالعمّال : ۶۳۸۷ .

2.It was a pre-Islamic pagan practice to bury newborn daughters alive as a result of the disgrace they brought to a family, which Islam abolished (ed.)

3.Kanz al-Ummal, no. ۶۳۸۷

4.الترغيب والترهيب : ۳ / ۲۳۹ / ۷ .

5.al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib, v. ۳, p. ۲۳۹, no. ۷

6.الكافي : ۲ / ۲۰۷ / ۸ .

7.al-Kafi, v. ۲, p. ۲۰۷, no. ۸

8.تنبيه الخواطر : ۱ / ۱۱۷ .

9.Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. ۱, p. ۱۱۷

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