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Library Ethics Greater Sins Chapter 42 Persistence in Minor Sins Sin and Social position
Library Ethics Greater Sins Chapter 42 Persistence in Minor Sins Sin and Social position
Sin and Social position
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Sin and Social position
According to our religious tenets, a person with knowledge, piety and purity is to be highly honoured and respected. When such a person, who is held in high esteem by the people, commits a small sin the very foundation of their faith and belief may be shaken. Just as a higher status is accorded to religious personalities by religion, so also their smaller sins are considered equivalent to greater sins of ignorant people.
Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (a.s.) says,
“Seventy sins of ignorant one will be forgiven before one sin of an Ä€lim.”
(al-KÄfi Vol. 1 page 48)
