The Analysis of the Evidences of the Principle “جب” (Islam Effaces Previous Misdeeds) with Emphasis on Tafsir Tasnim

Allah to those become Muslims has promised to forgive them. But non-Muslims who notice God’s demand for Islam face extensive problems such as the opinion of Islam about their acts in the past. Islam has a definite principle which Muslims’ scholars have determined it and have entitled as the principle embracing Islam removes previous misdeeds “جب”. But there have been presented problems to its evidences that they have made some Islamic scholars avoid to adduce it. Because the traditions which are based on from the point of sanad (chain of narrators) is weak and the Quranic evidences and the other reasons from the point of indication is debatable. In this note with descriptive-analytic method it has been tried to be extract the different evidences of this principle and to be criticized and examined in required cases. According to the research findings, the weakness of the sanad of hadith “جب” compensates with other evidences. The Quranic evidences of this principle also specially the verse 38 of surah al-Anfal (Arabic: سوره الانفال) contains the content of this principle and the manner of the holy prophet, the acts of the companions and the practice of the wise also are each of them an independent and authentic evidence for proving the authenticity of this principle.