According to an authentic hadeeth, the Prophet (peace and blessings
of Allah be upon him) said: “Allah is one
(odd number) and loves odd (number).”[1]
And He – blessed and exalted be He – is merciful and loves those who are
merciful and He only shows mercy to those slaves of His who are merciful to
others. He conceals faults and loves those who conceal (the faults) of His
servants. He is Oft Pardoning and loves those slaves of His who pardon others
among His servants.
He is Oft Forgiving and loves those who forgive. He is
Courteous and loves those who are courteous among His servants; and He hates
those who are rude, harsh and merciless to His servants. He is Gentle and loves
gentleness; He is Forbearing and loves forbearance; He is Righteous and loves
righteousness and its people.
He is just and loves justice. He accepts the excuses of His slaves
and He loves those who accept His servants’ excuses. He rewards His slave in
proportion to the amount of the presence or absence of these attributes in him.
Hence, whoever pardons others will be pardoned by Him and he who forgives
others will be forgiven. He who accepts excuses from others will also be
excused by Allah and whoever is gentle and mild to others Allah will be gentle
and mild to him as well.
Whoever is merciful to His creatures, Allah will be
merciful to him and whoever is good to them He will be good to him. Whoever is
generous to them, He will be generous to him and whoever benefits them, He will
benefit him. Whoever conceals their fault He will conceal his fault. He will
expose the one who exposes the fault of His servants and disgrace the one who
disgraces His slaves.
Whoever deprives them of good, He will deprive him of good; and
whoever puts His servants into hardship, He will put him into hardship. He
plans against the one who plans against His slaves and deceives the one who
deceives them. Whoever treats or deals with His creatures in a particular
manner, Allah will also treat and deal with him in the same manner both in this
world and in the Hereafter.
Therefore, Allah is to His servant the same way His servant is to
Allah’s creatures. As such, it is stated in a hadeeth that: “Whoever conceals the fault of a Muslim,
Allah will conceal his fault in this world and in the Hereafter. Whoever
removes one of the anxieties of this world from a believer, Allah will remove
one of the anxieties of the Day of Resurrection, and whoever makes things easy
for the one distressed, Allah will make his accountability easy.”[2]
Source: Al-Waabil as-Sayyib min al-Kalim
at-Tayyib p. 47-48 by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah
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