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This article is about philosophical term. For other uses, see Promise (disambiguation).
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A promise is a psychological contract indicating a transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render some service or gift to the second person or devotes something valuable now and here to his use. A promise may also be any vow or guarantee.
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Religions have differing attitudes towards promises.
In Christianity, a distinction is made between simple promises and oaths/vows, with only the latter being seen as involving God, either as witness to the promise or recipient of it, although He sees the simple promises too.
The act of making a solemn oath may be done on one\'s own, but certain oaths or vows, especially when it effects a person\'s vocation in life and role in the community, are made publicly, and before a priest or public official. A Christian who makes an oath to God is responsible for it, not to the peril of his soul, but as a sin if he breaks it.
Certain sects of Western Christianity, amongst them the Religious Society of Friends and the Mennonites, object to the taking of both oaths and affirmations, basing their objections upon a commandment given in the Sermon on the Mount, and regard all promises to be witnessed by God.
In An-Nahl 91, Allah forbids Muslims to break their promises after they have confirmed them. All promises are regarded as having Allah as their witness and guarantor. In the Hadith, Muhammad states that a Muslim who made a promise and then saw a better thing to do, should do the better thing and then make an act of atonement for breaking the promise.Chapter: 60. Kitaab At-Tawheed. Retrieved on September 11, 2005. Kitaab At-Tawheed. Retrieved on September 11, 2005
Chapter: 60. Kitaab At-Tawheed. Retrieved on September 11, 2005.
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