Ethics of Islam

meant to do so. A reaction even better than forgiveness would be
kindness in return for malice.
Couplet:
Against malevolence revenge is quite easy.
Kindness for rancour is altruistic and manly!
4– Generosity (muruwwat): It is to be fond of helping others
and giving things to those who are in need.
5– Loyalty (wafâ): To help friends and acquaintances with
their livelihood.
6– Charity (muwâsât): Sharing one’s possessions with friends
and acquaintances. Getting along well with them.
7– Extreme generosity (samâhat): It is to give lovingly things
that are not necessary (wâjib) to give.
8– Forgiveness (musâmaha): Abdicating your rights so that
others may benefit from them, although you do not have to do so,
and overlooking others’ faults.
JUSTICE (’ADÂLAT) GIVES BIRTH TO TWELVE
HABITS
1– Sadâqat (trueness): It is to love one’s friends, to desire their
happiness and comfort, to try to protect them from danger, and to
try to make them happy.
2– Amity (ulfat): It is the harmony and solidarity among the
members of a group with respect to their belief and worldly affairs
and thoughts.
3– Faithfulness (wafâ): Getting along with others and helping
each other. Another meaning of “wafâ” is keeping one’s promise
and respecting others’ rights.
4– Compassion (shafqat): Concern and worrying for others’
problems. Working and struggling in order to save them from
their problems.
5– Care of kin (sila ar-rahm): It is to watch over one’s relatives
and close friends and to visit them and assist them. It is stated in
a hadîth-i-sherîf: “I was sent to extirpate idolatry and to help my
relatives.”
6– Requital (mukâfât): It is to return goodness with goodness.
7– Good-fellowship (husn al-shirkat): Obedience to social
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