Forgiving the one who manipulated the investment or the offset on the Day of Resurrection
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. I entered into an investment with a sum of 500,000 riyals, and it turned out that the partner was manipulating things and had eaten up the money. Which is better: forgiving him in this world and releasing him, or taking the offset from him on the Day of Resurrection?
The Shaykh:
I think you are unable, unable to do so. If you have the ability to take your right and you forgive him, that is good. Forgiveness is required. But forgiving him because you are unable, that has no value. Forgiveness is only valuable when one has the ability. Yes, forgiveness is only when one has the ability. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
[An-Nisa 4:149], forgiveness when one has the ability. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. I entered into an investment with a sum of 500,000 riyals, and it turned out that the partner was manipulating things and had eaten up the money. Which is better: forgiving him in this world and releasing him, or taking the offset from him on the Day of Resurrection?
The Shaykh:
I think you are unable, unable to do so. If you have the ability to take your right and you forgive him, that is good. Forgiveness is required. But forgiving him because you are unable, that has no value. Forgiveness is only valuable when one has the ability. Yes, forgiveness is only when one has the ability. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
indeed, Allah is ever Pardoning and Competent.
فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ كَانَ عَفُوًّا قَدِيرًا
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، تتمة باب الصلح — islamhouse.com (1:11:16)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.