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The Pillars of Dialogue: Love, Compassion, Tolerance and Forgiving
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We want everyone to look at us through this lens, and we expect the breezes of forgiveness and pardon to blow constantly in our surroundings. All
of us want to refer our past and present to the climate of tolerance and forbearance, which melts and transforms, cleans and purifies, and then walk
toward the future without anxiety. We do not want our past to be criticized, or our future to be darkened because of our present. All of us expect love
and respect, hope for tolerance and forgiveness, and want to be embraced with feelings of liberality and affection. We expect tolerance and forgiveness
from our parents in response to our mischief at home, from our teachers in response to our naughtiness at school, from the innocent victims of our
injustice and oppression, from the judge and prosecutor in court, and from the Judge of Judges (God) in the highest tribunal.
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However, deserving what we expect is very important. Anyone who does not forgive has no right to expect forgiveness. Everyone will see disrespect to
the degree that they have been disrespectful. Anyone who does not love is not worthy of being loved. Those who do not embrace humanity with tolerance
and forgiveness will not receive forgiveness and pardon. One who curses others can only expect curses in return. Those who curse will be cursed, and
those who beat will be beaten. If true Muslims would continue on their way and tolerate curses with such Qur’anic principles as: "When they meet empty
words or unseemly behavior, they generously pass them by" and "if you behave tolerantly and overlook their faults," then others would appear to implement
the justice of Destiny on those cursers.
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