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Virtues APOLOGIZING AND OFFERING EXCUSES

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
When you do wrong, apologize.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Apologizing necessitates pardoning.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
He who seeks pardon has not sinned.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Too much apology magnifies the sins.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who apologizes has sought pardon.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Repeating the apology is a reminder of the sin.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who admits his wrongdoing deserves forgiveness.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
There is no intercessor more successful than apology.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Seeking pardon (or taking lesson) is a sincere warner.80
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Repeating the apology is a reminder of the [past] sins.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who apologizes in a befitting manner deserves to be forgiven.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
One who seeks pardon without having sinned has imposed the sin upon his soul.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Do not offer an excuse to the one who would like to find you without an excuse.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Being needless of offering an excuse is more honourable than truthfulness [in your excuse].
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Sometimes the admission of guilt for having committed a sin dispenses with the need for seeking pardon.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
Keep away from that for which there is little denial, even if the excuses from you are many, for it is not such that everyone who speaks ill [of you] can be excused by you.
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim
Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):
How good an intercessor seeking pardon is!
Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim