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Follow a bad deed with a good one

Friday, January 23, 2026

اتَّقِ اللَّهَ حَيْثُمَا كُنْتَ، وَأَتْبِعِ السَّيِّئَةَ الْحَسَنَةَ تَمْحُهَا، وَخَالِقِ النَّاسَ بِخُلُقٍ حَسَنٍ
Transliteration

Ittaqi-llaha haythuma kunt, wa atbi'i-s-sayyi'ata-l-hasanata tamhuha, wa khaliqi-n-nasa bi-khuluqin hasan.

Translation

Fear Allah wherever you are. Follow a bad deed with a good one and it will erase it. Deal with people in the best of manners.

Narrated by Abu Dharr and Mu'adh ibn Jabal·Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1987 (hasan)·Nawawi's Forty · #18
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