KINDNESS IS SINCERITY
Being testing with kindness or being trialed by kindness requires and necessitates having control over happiness and pride which can be brought about through kindness. Principles of kindness does not accept states such as hypocrisy, acting superior, despising indigent, taunting, doing kindness to be known and or to be heard. “The upper hand that gives is better than the lower hand that takes” also means whilst helping the helpless one must maintain an attitude of gratitude and humbleness. The person should know his kindness as real benefactors of their lives. He knows that expecting something even a word after kindness is anomalous.
The person who is carrying out the act of kindness must get to know the people they are helping on an intimate level, in order to truly find out that they are really in need of your assistance. He must be prepared to give up his valuables and personal possession for executing kindness. “You will not attain righteousness until you spend of what you love”, “they feed, for the love of Allah Rabbul Jalil, the indigent, the orphan and the captive. Saying, ‘we feed you for the sake of Allah alone. No reward do we desire from you, nor thanks” these two verses remind us that kindness must be done intimately, not with a bad grace. Performing kindness modestly, secretly and inconspicuously brings about tranquility and mercy to both parties, the helper and the helped. Kindness for ostentatious reasons causes nothing, fear, poverty, deep regret in the sense of materially and morally.
“Those that spend their wealth for the cause of Allah Rabbul Jalil and do not follow their spending (charity) with taunts and insults shall be rewarded by their Lord and no fear shall come upon them, neither shall they grieve. A kind word with forgiveness is better than charity followed by injury. Allah is Self- Sufficient, Merciful . O you who believe! Render not vain your alms-giving by taunts and injury, like those who spend their wealth only for ostentation, and believe neither in Allah nor in the hereafter. Such men are like a rock covered with earth: a shower of rain falls upon it and leaves it hard and bare. They will gain nothing from their works.”
