In the other version it is followed by...
In the other version it is followed by: You should forget his slips and remember his good qualities, and you should tell nothing about him but good. in guarding these secrets In the other version it continues: a debt is that, if you have the means, you pay him back, and if you are in straitened circumstances, you satisfy him with good words and you send him away with gentleness. for more time In the other version it continues: you give witness to it against yourself.
You do not wrong him and you give him his full due. If what he claims against you is false, you act with kindness toward him and you show nothing in his affair other than kindness; you do not displease your Lord in his affair. And there is no strength save in God. In the other version it continues: you maintain polite moderation in speaking to him and you do not deny him his right. If your claim is false, you fear God, repent to Him, and abandon your claim.
his advice Islam In the other version it continues: is that you give to him in the measure of his need. his dishonesty In the other version it continues: is that you accept from him with gratitude and recognition of his bounty if he gives, and you accept his excuse if he withholds. In the other version it continues: you first praise God, then you thank that person. In the other version it continues: is that you pardon him.
But if you know that your pardon will harm him, you should defend yourself. God says: ( 85 ) Whosoever defends himself after he has been wronged- against them there is no way. [The Holy Quran, Shura 42:41] The Holy Quran, Shura 42:41-43 A. Yusuf Ali's translation The Holy Quran, Nahl 16:126 A. Yusuf Ali's translation In the other version it continues: And keeping harm away from them. You should love for them what you love for yourself and dislike for them what you dislike for yourself.
Their old men stand in the place of your father, their youth in the place of your brothers, their old women in the place of your mother, and their young ones in the place of your children. protecting them The (may God bless him and his household) Previous…