Compassion And Caring
Small Gestures, Big Rewards!
A Muslim’s Conduct Is The Best
Source of Islamic Daawah
(M. Javed Naseem)
Imagine for a second the beautiful feeling when you help a
needy, a handicapped, an orphan or a homeless person, and that little gesture
brings not only a touching smile on his/her face but his/her wet eyes convey to
you the sincere and profound gratitude from the heart too! There’s no parallel
to that in the entire universe!
آمِنُواْ بِٱللَّهِ
وَرَسُولِهِ وَأَنفِقُواْ مِمَّا جَعَلَكُم مُّسْتَخْلَفِينَ
فِيهِ فَٱلَّذِينَ
آمَنُواْ مِنكُمْ وَأَنفَقُواْ لَهُمْ أَجْرٌ كَبِيرٌ
“Believe in Allah and His messenger, and
“Believe in Allah and His messenger, and
spend (in charity)
out of the (substance)
whereof He has made
you heirs. For, those
of you who believe
and spend (in charity),
for them is a great
Reward.”
(al-Quran 57:7)
Charity not only brings us unlimited rewards, it also gives
us the guarantee for those rewards at least twice – here in this world and then
in the Hereafter. Here’s the promise of Allah, the Almighty, the Most Merciful:
أُوْلَـٰئِكَ
يُؤْتُونَ أَجْرَهُم مَّرَّتَيْنِ بِمَا صَبَرُواْ وَيَدْرَءُونَ
بِٱلْحَسَنَةِ
ٱلسَّيِّئَةَ وَمِمَّا رَزَقْنَاهُمْ يُنفِقُونَ
“Twice will they be given their reward, for
“Twice will they be given their reward, for
that they have
persevered, that they avert Evil
with Good, and that
they spend (in charity)
out of what We have
given them.”
(al-Quran 28:54)
Charity is an essential pillar of the Faith called Islam. It
is a part of righteousness and piety. Allah has commanded us to spend from what
He has granted us, on the poor and the needy. In Surah al-Baqarah alone there
are a dozen verses that refer to spending in the cause of Allah (charity). It’s
a virtue that can bring us unlimited rewards in the Hereafter. At the same
time, it brings prosperity and eliminates poverty from the society. It is a
quality of the ‘people of truth’.
لَّيْسَ ٱلْبِرَّ أَن
تُوَلُّواْ وُجُوهَكُمْ قِبَلَ ٱلْمَشْرِقِ وَٱلْمَغْرِبِ
وَلَـٰكِنَّ ٱلْبِرَّ
مَنْ آمَنَ بِٱللَّهِ وَٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلآخِرِ وَٱلْمَلاۤئِكَةِ
وَٱلْكِتَابِ
وَٱلنَّبِيِّينَ وَآتَى ٱلْمَالَ عَلَىٰ حُبِّهِ ذَوِى ٱلْقُرْبَىٰ
وَٱلْيَتَامَىٰ
وَٱلْمَسَاكِينَ وَٱبْنَ ٱلسَّبِيلِ وَٱلسَّآئِلِينَ
وَفِى ٱلرِّقَابِ
وَأَقَامَ ٱلصَّلاةَ وَآتَى ٱلزَّكَاةَ وَٱلْمُوفُونَ بِعَهْدِهِمْ
إِذَا عَاهَدُواْ
وَٱلصَّابِرِينَ فِى ٱلْبَأْسَآءِ وٱلضَّرَّاءِ وَحِينَ ٱلْبَأْسِ
أُولَـٰئِكَ
ٱلَّذِينَ صَدَقُوآ وَأُولَـٰئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْمُتَّقُونَ
“It is not righteousness that you turn your
“It is not righteousness that you turn your
faces towards east or
west; but righteousness
is to believe in
Allah and the Last Day, and the
Angels, and the Book,
and the Messengers; to
spend of your
substance, out of love for Him,
for your kin, for
orphans, for the needy, for the
wayfarer, for those
who ask, and for the ransom
of slaves; to be
steadfast in prayer, and practice
regular charity; to
fulfill the contracts which you
have made; and to be
firm and patient, in pain
(or suffering) and adversity,
and throughout all
periods of panic.
Such are the people of truth,
the Allah-fearing.”
(al-Quran 2:177)
Mercy, compassion and tolerance are the good virtues of good
human beings but they are essentials (or basics) for the Muslims. Some Zionists
and racist groups in the West are working tirelessly to deprive Muslims of these
virtues by intimidation and by forcing them to react irrationally, bringing, at
the same time, bad name to Islam with false flags or disguised terrorist
attacks.
Recent terrorist attacks in Paris have shaken the world, and those behind
them are reaping the rewards. Islamophobia is touching the new heights and
anti-Muslim apartheid soared up in many countries last week. Many mosques and
Islamic centers were attacked and vandalized; many Muslims were also assaulted
and targeted. Even the French air force bombed Syria killing thousands of innocent
people including children and women. The irony is that all (or most) attackers
were French or EU citizens. A Syrian passport was planted on the site. No
president, prime minister or ‘humanitarian’ body condemned it nor sympathized
with the Syrian victims because they were Muslims. That’s the height of
hypocrisy!
As a result of Paris attacks,
mosques in Europe and America
were attacked and vandalized. In Texas , the
town of Pflugerville
saw a similar attack on its Islamic Center and the mosque. But not all
Christians or Jews get carried away by the media rhetoric. Here’s a beautiful
example of compassion:
7-Year-Old Who Donated Piggy
Bank To Mosque Receives Amazing Surprise In The Post
By: Amy Packham
A 7-year-old boy who donated the contents of his piggy
bank to a mosque in Texas in the wake of the Paris attacks, has
received a big surprise in the post.
Jack Swanson, whose kind act was captured on camera, received
a sweet ‘thank you’ note and a brand new iPad he had been saving up for.
"You had saved $20 in your piggy bank for an iPad but
you donated this to the local Texas
mosque," the note from the American Muslim Community read.
"Because of your amazing generosity and kind heart,
please enjoy this iPad with kind thanks."
Swanson's story gained publicity after a video showed him
walking up to the Islamic Center of Pflugerville in Texas (America), which was
hit by a vandal who left torn pages of the Koran smeared with faeces outside
the entrance.
Swanson then presented his savings, according to Faisal
Naeem, one of the mosque's board members.
Naeem told ABC-News: “Jack’s $20 are worth $20 million to us
because it's the thought that counts.”
"Jack is just a little older than my son, Ibrahim. If
we have more kind-hearted kids like them in the world, I have hope for our
future."
The seven-year-old boy's mother, Laura Swanson, told KVUE
that both she and her son wanted to support the mosque and show that
"what happened in Paris is not what's
happening in Pflugerville (America )".
(Courtesy: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/11/20/boy-donated-piggy-bank-to-mosque-after-paris-attacks_n_8608038.html)
Canadian Muslim’s “Walk
in his shoes”
charity act goes viral
By Staff-writer Al Arabiya News, 25 April 2014
Acts of kindness come in different shapes and sizes and a
Muslim man in Canada
has had photos of his act go viral after he gave his shoes to a needy man
before walking home barefoot.
The images were taken by off-duty bus driver Surjit Singh
Virk who noticed a passenger wearing plastic hairnets on his feet in lieu of
shoes on a rainy day last week.
A man in Muslim dress then took off his shoes and socks,
according to Virk, and gave them to the man, saying “you can take these, don’t
worry about me – I live close by and can walk.”
The charitable man got off the bus before the recipient
could thank him, according to Virk.
Speaking to ‘Vancouver-24’ , Virk added: “People usually don’t care or
even look at other people on the bus, they didn’t even want to sit beside this
guy because of how he was dressed.”
“I felt bad for the guy,” he told QMI Agency, “he was
wearing plastic hairnets on his feet. I was only a two minute walk from home so
I thought I could give him my shoes.”
According to media reports, the donor was returning from the
nearby Muslim Association mosque.
Spokesman Mufti Aasim told the ‘Toronto Sun’:
“Whenever we do a good deed, even if it’s to help someone
out, the Islamic teachings maintain this should remain only for the pleasure of
God.”
From: BBC, By News from Elsewhere...
A man in the Saudi city of Hail has put a fridge outside his house and
called on neighbors to fill it with food for the needy, it seems.
The man, who prefers to remain anonymous, told neighbors
this would spare poor people the 'shame' of asking for food, the Gulf News
newspaper reported.
The story took off after leading Saudi Muslim cleric Sheikh
Mohammad al-Arefee tweeted his approval: "I've always said the people of
Hail are generous. A man puts a fridge outside his house for leftover food; an
indirect act of charity for the needy. Oh how I love you, Hail!"
Sheikh al-Arefee has 8.6 million followers on Twitter and
his remark was re-tweeted more than 5,000 times, according to Saudi news site
Akhbar-24.
Social media users are calling on mosques and households to
put out more fridges, and one person says people should go beyond
leftovers and leave freshly-cooked food, adding it was a matter of feeding not
only the body but also the soul through a "great act of charity".
Australian Muslim Woman
Saves A Child:
Here’s another example of compassion from Australia ! A Muslim woman saves the
life of a young white girl from an oncoming train.
The little girl (about 8 years) was playing with her toy on
the other side of the platform. When she saw from far the train was coming, she
rushed to the platform but dropped her toy. Then she returned to pick up her
toy and rushed back to the platform by crossing the train track on foot. She
panicked in front of the approaching train and could not get up to the
platform. A Muslim lady at the platform rushed to help her and pulled her up to
the platform just seconds before the train roared in. Allah-o-Akbar. What a
save!
See the short video!
Moral:
There are hundreds of examples of compassion passing in
front of our eyes every day in life. It’s up to us what we promote and what we
conceal. We should not forget that those who promote hate and racism, they
would be ruined by their own hatred and racism. Only the Truth stands solid
like a rock and protects its promoters. Positive thinking is healthy and
constructive while negative thinking is destructive. There is no such thing as
‘clash of civilizations’. The only clash we inherited from the time of Adam, is
the clash of man and the Devil – the clash of Truth and Falsehood, the clash of
Good and Evil. This world is for everybody – once again, for everybody. You
cannot kill a billion-plus Muslims of this world! So, show some tolerance and
compassion! Live and let live!
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