Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 177
177 'God will call you to account for those thoughts that are the result of deliberation,” 82 and not for those that are accidental and are driven out as soon as discovered. The Holy Prophet sa explains this by saying: 'If a man is assailed by an evil thought but he suppresses it or drives it out of his mind and does not act in accordance with it, God will bestow upon him a good recompense for having so acted. ' 83 This exception which relates to such morals as concern the individual himself, is also applicable to morals which affect others. As God says: 'God will recompense those people with good who avoid evil of all kinds, whether great or small, and when they are about to commit evil under a sudden urge, check themselves and turn away from it. ' 84 That is to say, if a man, owing to carelessness or under the influence of sudden passion, is about to stumble into evil, but as soon as he perceives what he is about to do, checks himself and pilots himself to safety, 82 Al-Baqarah, 2:226. 83 Bukh a r i. 84 Al-Najm, 53:32-33.