is better and more enduring for those who believe and put their trust in their Lord, (36) those who keep away from the grave sins and the shameful deeds, and who—whenever they are angered—pardon. (37) (al-Shūrā 36-37)

He thus states that what is with Him is better for the one who believes in Him and relies upon Him; this is tawḥīd. He then says, “those who keep away from the grave sins and the shameful deeds,” which refers to turning aside from the summons of the appetitive faculty. After that He says, “and who—whenever they are angered—pardon,” which is opposition to the irascible faculty. In this way He combines tawḥīd, chastity, and justice, which together comprise every form of good.

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Forsaking (hajr) the Quran takes several forms:

1. To abandon listening to it, believing in it, and lending it one’s attentive ear.
2. To abandon acting upon it and stopping where it declares lawful and unlawful, even though one may recite it and believe in it.
3. To abandon judging by it and referring to it in the fundamentals and the details of the religion, while holding that it does not yield certainty and that its proofs are merely verbal and fail to impart knowledge.
4. To abandon pondering it, striving to understand it, and coming to know what the Speaker intended by it.
5. To abandon seeking healing and remedy through it for all the ailments and diseases of the heart, so that a person looks for the cure of his malady elsewhere and forsakes treatment with it.

All of this falls under His words: “And the Messenger will say, ‘My Lord, my people have taken this Quran as something to be abandoned’” [al-Furqān: 30], even though some kinds of abandonment are lighter than others.

The same holds true for the constriction that people may feel in their breasts toward it: at times that constriction arises from its very revelation and from acknowledging that it is the truth from Allah.