ذَمُّ خُلفِ الوَعدِ Censure of Breaking a Promise

13ـ الإمامُ الصّادقُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): عِدَةُ المُؤمنِ أخاهُ نَذرٌ لا كَفّارَةَ لَهُ، فمَن أخلَفَ فبِخُلفِ اللّه‏ِ بَدأَ، ولِمَقتِهِ تَعَرَّضَ، وذلكَ قَولُهُ: «يا أيُّها الّذِينَ آمَنُوا لِمَ تَقُولونَ ما لا تَفْعَلُونَ».

13– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘The promise of a believer to his brother is a vow for which there is no [prescribed] penance, so he who breaks a promise first disappoints Allah, and subjects himself to His discontentment, as Allah says: "O you who have faith! Why do you say what you do not do?"[ Qur’an 61:2] [al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 363, no. 1]
 

14ـ الإمامُ الكاظمُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): إذا وَعَدتُمُ الصِّغارَ فأوفُوا لَهُم ؛ فإنَّهُم يَرَونَ أنّكُم أنتُمُ الّذينَ تَرزُقونَهُم، وإنّ اللّه‏َ لايَغضَبُ بشَيءٍ كغَضَبِهِ لِلنِّساءِ والصِّبيانِ.

14– Imam al-Kazim (AS) said, ‘When you make a promise to children then fulfil that promise to them, because they perceive you as the one who provides them with the means of subsistence, and Allah is not angered by anything the way He is angered by [matters pertaining to] the rights of women and children.’[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 104, p. 73, no. 23]