Source: The Quest for Meaning by Tariq Ramadhan
An Islamic prophetic tradition says: ' Find seventy excuses for your brother (sister), and if you cannot find any, imagine that there is one excuse you do not know.'
This suggestion echoes the Christian maxim 'Love thy neighbour as thyself,' and 'Thou shalt not judge.'
It is about loving and suspending one's judgement.
This does not mean accepting everything that others do (in which case there would be no love), but it does mean taking the view that their mistakes or sins do not tell us the whole truth about them.
In Measure for Measure, Shakespeare suggests that we "condemn the fault and not the actor of it" if we wish to ensure that we do not punish the wrong person.
Human beings can judge acts,
but only God is in a position to judge human beings
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