فَضلُ سَترِ العُيوبِ Concealing Faults

11ـ رسولُ اللهِ‏ِ (صَلَّيَ اللهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ): مَن سَتَرَ عَلى مُؤمِنٍ خِزيَةً فكأنَّما أحيا مَوؤودَةً مِن قَبرِها.

11– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘He who conceals a fellow believer’ s shameful act is as if he has revived a newborn girl buried-alive551 from her grave.’[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 6387]
 

12ـ رسولُ اللهِ (صَلَّيَ اللهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ): مَن عَلِمَ مِن أخيهِ سَيِّئَةً فسَتَرَها، سَتَرَ اللّه‏ُ عَلَيهِ يَومَ القِيامَةِ .

12– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘He who knows a fellow brother’ s evil deed and conceals it [from others], Allah will conceal his faults on the Day of Resurrection.’[al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib, v. 3, p. 239, no. 7]
 

13ـ الإمامُ الباقرُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): يَجِبُ لِلمُؤمِنِ عَلَى المُؤمِنِ أن يَستُرَ عَلَيهِ سَبعينَ كَبيرَةً !

13– Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘It is the duty of a believer towards a fellow believer to conceal seventy of his grave sins!’[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 207, no. 8]
 

14ـ تنبيه الخواطر: رُوِيَ أنّ عيسى (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) مَرَّ والحَوارِيّونَ عَلى جيفَةِ كَلبٍ، فقالَ الحَوارِيّونَ: ما أنتَنَ ريحَ هذا الكَلبَ! فقالَ عيسى (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): ما أشَدَّ بَياضَ أسنانِهِ!

14– It is narrated in Tanbih al-Khawatir that Prophet Jesus (AS) was passing with his disciples by the corpse of a dog, when the disciples exclaimed, ‘What an awful stench this dog has!’ to which Prophet Jesus (AS) retorted, ‘How white are his teeth!’[Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 1, p. 117]