forgiveness

 

Every human being is make mistake/sins. So forgiveness is very important part in Islam. Perhaps if there is no forgiveness no one will eligible for paradise.

 

There are 2 type of sins in Islam, first sin caused by your bad act to other human being such as stealing somebody else property, heart someone feeling or physic. Second sins caused by your bad act to God (don't obey God's command), for example you don't do 5 daily prayers, you don't do fasting during Ramadan etc.

 

Because of these 2 type of sins, so there are 2 type of forgiveness:

- For mistakes/sins due to your bad act to God, you just need to ask forgiveness to God sincerely and promise to do your best not to do it again.

- For mistakes/sins due to your act to human being, before God's forgive you we are required to ask forgiveness to the person that you made mistake to. For example if you still someone property you have to return the stuff to her/him or ask her/his favor to forgive you for the stuff that you've taken. If you heart someone feeling or physic we should ask forgiveness to that person. So in this case this kind of sins/mistake we have to do both ask forgiveness to person and to God.

 

So from this we know that our behave to other human being is very important in Islam.

 

Islam also teach us to be forgiveful, in case somebody make mistake to you, and he/she realizes the mistake and sincerely asks forgiveness to you, we should forgive them.

 

Let me add very importan concept, in Islam to ask forgiveness to God we don't need anybody (saint or Imam etc) as a medium, we ask directly to God.