In numerous instances, individuals who had gossiped or insulted the Imam personally and had later repented and taken back their words, would write a letter to his holiness seeking to be pardoned and amnestied. The Imam would be informed of all of them and he would without exception, state in all instances that “I have pardoned him.” Among them was a Muslim of Arab descent from America who wrote in a letter to the Imam that “By making an insulting remark about you, I have committed a grave sin and this sin stalks me in the form a horrific nightmare” and had pleaded him for his amnesty. When the Imam was informed of this, he stated in a tone that was filled with kindness and affection that: “I have pardoned him.”
I have pardoned him: Hujjat al-Islam Muhammad Hasan Rahimiyan