It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), he said: Shall I not tell you the most excellent verse of the Holy Qur’an, which the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) explained to us? That verse is: {مَا أَ صَابَکُمْ مِنْ مُصِیبَۃٍ فَبِمَا کَسَبَتْ أَ یْدِیکُمْ وَیَعْفُو عَنْ کَثِیرٍ} … Whatever misfortune befalls you is because of what your own hands have earned, and He pardons much. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: O Ali! I will explain its interpretation for you: {مَا أَ صَابَکُمْ} Whatever befalls you, that is, illness or punishment or any worldly trial, {فَبِمَا کَسَبَتْ أَ یْدِیکُمْ} (then that is the recompense for what your own hands have earned) and Allah, the Exalted, is too gracious to punish you again in the Hereafter, and whatever Allah pardons in this world, He is far more forbearing than to seize you again after pardoning.