Full Idea
Those who avenge themselves when wronged incur no guilt.
Gist of Idea
Those who avenge themselves when wronged incur no guilt
Source
Mohammed (The Koran [c.622], Ch.42)
Book Reference
Mohammed: 'The Koran', ed/tr. Dawood,N.J. [Penguin 1968], p.154
A Reaction
Compare Ideas 1659 (Protagoras), 346 (Socrates), 6288 (Jesus), and 4286 (Scruton!). In the light of those ideas, this comment in the Koran strikes me as coming from an older and less civilized world.
Related Ideas
Idea 1659 Protagoras seems to have made the huge move of separating punishment from revenge [Protagoras, by Vlastos]
Idea 346 One ought not to return a wrong or injury to any person, whatever the provocation [Socrates]
Idea 6288 Don't resist evil, but turn the other cheek [Jesus]
Idea 4286 Only just people will drop their own self-interests when faced with an impartial verdict [Scruton]