Special deeds

[Storm]

I thought i'd be nice for all of us to share deeds that we've done, not ordinary ones - like giving money to the poor or doing our daily chores, etc. Its those deeds that mean a lot to you and are memorable.
I have no intention whatsoever to show anyone in a bad light or to show-off about it. This just might inspire some of us, if not most of us to do the same.

Here's mine:-
I was out shopping with my mum, I was 12. I remember standing by a fruit stall when i saw a little girl crying for bananas. Her father was beside her but could not afford to buy the fruit. I started crying, softly. My mother asked me and i told her about the girl, who had left by that time. We drove around looking for her and when we did find her, we gave her the fruit.

I will never forget.

 

[dianek]

My freshman year of college I had joined a Social Services type club to help those in need in the community. It was a bunch of Social work students. Anyhow, we did a free clothing and coat give away (yard sale only free). I had my leather coat sitting beside a chair and this girl picked it up assuming it was part of the program......I didn't have the heart to tell her it was my personal coat and so I let her have it. It was the only leather coat I ever owned.

 

[Storm]

My freshman year of college I had joined a Social Services type club to help those in need in the community. It was a bunch of Social work students. Anyhow, we did a free clothing and coat give away (yard sale only free). I had my leather coat sitting beside a chair and this girl picked it up assuming it was part of the program......I didn't have the heart to tell her it was my personal coat and so I let her have it. It was the only leather coat I ever owned.

May Allah bless you dianek

 

[ditta]

Asalaamu'Alykum,

Well nothing amazing has ever happend to me, but i had some Cadbury's Whole Nut chocolate the big size one. I was actually looking someone to give it to prior to finding someone. Anyway i crossed the road and outside a shop was an individual asking for some money, so i gave the chocolate to him. I was like Alhamdulilah i have found someone, took me 2 weeks.

You see its difficult to find someone when you want to give, but when you are not prepared, BOOM someone appears.

Like outside a bank, the person was reading a book and wrapped up different material to keep warm. I thought Allah has given me the opportunity to do some good. So i had some spare £ and gave it to him. He replied "God Bless You". I was not sure how to reply, i think i said "Your welcome", but i carried on my way to the Mosque. Alhamdulilah.

Not amazing, but opportunities to earn Allah's pleasure.

Wasalam

 

[TheHumbleWun]

Salaam,

I usually catch the metro bus when I go to work and vice-versa. Late one cold evening, I was on my way home and I thought I had lost my money (which I use to pay for the bus). I searched my pockets and couldn't find it. I got on to the bus and told the bus driver that I had lost my money. The bus driver said, 'Don't worry about it' and was going to give me a free ride. I got on to the bus and kept searching for my money and found it inside my book bag. I was hesitating whether I should go and pay for the bus fare, even though the bus driver let me in for free. Finally, I was like I'm going to go pay. I told the bus driver that I found my money and he looked suprised that someone would ever do that. He said, 'Don't worry about it' and smiled.

Moral of the story: being truthful gets you a long way. Subhanallah. I was hesitating not to pay, but when I did try to, the bus driver still let me get a free ride! Alhamdulillah.

 

[bint S]

:salam2:
i hate to be the party pooper here but remeber that what ua right right hand gives even ua left hand shouldnt know let alone other pple. sorry guys

 

[TheHumbleWun]

:salam2:
i hate to be the party pooper here but remeber that what ua right right hand gives even ua left hand shouldnt know let alone other pple. sorry guys

Salaam,

Huh?? It's actually beneficial to talk about a good deed. You are not suppose to tell your sins to other people!

 

[Faisal_01]

:salam2:
i hate to be the party pooper here but remeber that what ua right right hand gives even ua left hand shouldnt know let alone other pple. sorry guys

What are you talking about? I didn't understand a word of that.

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I actually have some good deeds that I did, but most of them involved giving money. I really can't think of one I did that didn't involve giving money from my mind at the moment.

 

[bint S]

:salam2:

what i meant was,

muslims are not meant to tell when they give charity (money or any help) except when it is used as a means to encourage others to giv e.g. in a charity event. theres a hadith but its not coming to ming right now, may b som1 knows it?


opps sorry its deeds not charity, oh well ma bad..

 

[bint S]

:salam2:


a visit to the optician for me it is then

 

[abou haytam]

salamo alikom

i think sister Bint_S want to talk about what is called in islam show off, which mean you do a good deed in sight of people say good thing about you. Your deed is not acceptable in this case. however it s sign of Eman if a muslim is happy when he did a good deed.

<< It is not showing off if a person feels happy because he has done an act of worship, because that is a sign of his faith. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever feels happy because of his good deeds and sad because of his bad deeds, that is the believer.” >>


source :

http://www.islam-qa.com/index.php?ref=9359&ln=eng&txt=الرياء

you can check those very informative linkn about rule of showing off in islam

Admiring oneself after doing a good deed​

Question:

Sometimes a person finds himself filled with self-admiration or showing off after doing a good deed or act of worship, and he is scared that this will cancel out what he has done. What do you advise?

response :

http://www.islam-qa.com/index.php?ref=6356&ln=eng&txt=الرياء

How can a person deal with the temptation to show off?​

Question:

This is an important issue which i want to know about, what happens is that whenever i do something good, i look for people to appreciate it, in other words to show off, i know it is not allowed in Islam to show off, but how can we get rid of this feeling, i try to but eventually i get into it.

response :

http://www.islam-qa.com/index.php?ref=6578&ln=eng&txt=الرياء


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I hope incha allah that all your good deeds are in sight of allah. and bewar cuz talking about his good deeds could be a sort of show off .

 

[Wiseguy74]

Assalam O Alaikum,

Surah Fussilat 41: 34, 35, 36

[34] Nor can Goodness and Evil be equal. Repel (Evil) with what is better: then will he between whom and thee was hatred become as it were thy friend and intimate!

[35] And no one will be granted such goodness except those who exercise patience and self-restraint, none but persons of the greatest good fortune.

[36] And if (at any time) an incitement to discord is made to thee by the Evil One, seek refuge in Allah. He is the One Who hears and knows all things.


It really works. Alhamdu Lillah

 

[shaheeda35]

:salam2:
Every morning there is a cat that I give food to. She is out there every morning, mashallah. I even buy food just for this purpose. I always think of the hadith about the woman who did not feed the cat, and went to the hell-fire, and the man who gave a thirsty dog water and went to Paradise, Alhamdullilah. Also, a smile can be charity too, so smile all of you!!

 

[Wiseguy74]

:salam2:
Every morning there is a cat that I give food to. She is out there every morning, mashallah. I even buy food just for this purpose. I always think of the hadith about the woman who did not feed the cat, and went to the hell-fire, and the man who gave a thirsty dog water and went to Paradise, Alhamdullilah. Also, a smile can be charity too, so smile all of you!!

Masha Allah sister may Allah(swt) gives you ajar for this.

 

[TheKnowledgeSeeker]

Well, everytime my parents get their tax return they give us money so this one time (at the age of 14 or 15) they gave me 50 dollars and i read an islamic ad asking donations to help Muslims kids back at Palestine so i put my 50 dollar in an envople and send it to them. Than a week or so later my parents ask me what i did with my share of the money they give me and i told them. They start laughing and said i should have told to so they can turn it to money order to email and they told me may it was stolen because i never heard from them. It was my first time i was proud of myself and it still remember and laugh about it.

 

[Abdul Hasib]

:salam2:
Alhamdullilah. Also, a smile can be charity too, so smile all of you!!

Thanks for telling me that sister but I already taped my face together. :lol: Jsut kidding.

But enough of that!

My Story:

Alright, so I HAVE done a couple of good deeds about sadaqah. And please everyone, I'm not saying this to show off, I just want to help us all reflect upon each other's deeds and say, "Mashallah now we'll make sure we do more good deeds."

So anyway...

So I remember when I was in Bangladesh and I went to Keshurgunz for shopping. So then I carried all of my money with me (1500 TK, about $20 and all my money) because I remember when I went around Mymensingh and I used to see beggers on the stret. Most of them wore men, with Fanjabis (those things we Bangalis and Pakistanis + Indian Muslims wear), and I never had money on me but I've always been having a Niyaat to help these people.

So when my cousin (he's over 30, and from Malaysia, and Islamic Mashallah) and I were shopping in Keshurgunz, I saw an old man with a beard and a stick holding out his hand and crying for someone to give him money. So I took out my 500 TK (I was gonna use the rest of the 1000 for Sadaqah when I was going to go to Dhaka two days after becasuse I knew I'd find more Maskins. So anyway I took my 500 TK out) and put it in his hands and he said "Alhamdulillah" and was saying Duruds and he was about to leave when the store owner was watching me and he said to the old man, "Do you know how much he gave you? Here's a 12 yr old boy from America who just handed you 500 TK (Takas). Keep it safe! Soemone will try to steal it from you," and then the old man lifted the bottom his Fanjabi, showing a small pouch tied around his stomach with a string and put the money inside there. While he did this, my cousin and I bought my clothes and we left. When we walked out of the store, the old man just finished putting the money in his pocket and then he rubbed his hands together and raised them and was making dua out loud.
"Oh Allah, please forgive my boy (he was talking about me, called me Aba) for his sins, YA Allah give him Jannah, Ya Allah please reward him for this and accept my dua for him on Qiyamaat. Ameen."

My cousin knows the kind of boy I am. Al Gurabaa, the Stranger. He once told me that when I was in BAngladesh (this year when I went there), that he heard ME a 12 YR OLD giving a Quran Telawat, teaching peopel in the Madrashah, giving Hadith and Dawah, and that when he heard my uncle tell him this on the phone, Allah's Noor came to him and his Eman and Hope Rose since he's having trouble during work because he's struggling to do his Salat on tine, and that he has to steal time (get out of work) to attend Jumah.
So that's why he liked me the most. So he wasn't dropped-dead shocked when I did that btu he was happy that I did that.

I have other examples and I'll tell them whenever I have free time.

:salam2:

 

[Allahu_Hassbi]

:salam2:
Very informative artical brother abou haytam.
Specially the last source you provided which included this point:

One of the interpretations of the hadeeth of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)

“Whoever shows off, Allaah will expose him.”
(Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 6134; Muslim; 2986).

Ibn Hajar said: al-Khattaabi said, this means: whoever does something that is not sincerely for the sake of Allaah, merely wanting people to see him and hear him, will be punished for that – Allaah will expose him and make known what he is concealing.
It was said that whoever does something with the intention of gaining status and prestige among people, and does not seek the Face of Allaah by doing it, Allaah will make him the subject of bad speech among the people in whose eyes he wanted to gain status, and he will have no reward for it in the Hereafter.

Jazak Allahu Khair for sharing this.

 

[dna1987]

:salam2:
i hate to be the party pooper here but remeber that what ua right right hand gives even ua left hand shouldnt know let alone other pple. sorry guys

Salaam,

Huh?? It's actually beneficial to talk about a good deed. You are not suppose to tell your sins to other people!

What are you talking about? I didn't understand a word of that.

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I actually have some good deeds that I did, but most of them involved giving money. I really can't think of one I did that didn't involve giving money from my mind at the moment.

What bint S meant, is that of the 7 types of people that will recieve Allah's shade on the Day of Judgement, when there is no other shade but His, one of those will be one that has donated so secretly, that his left hand does not know what his right hand gave.

Finishing off, I can't remember any special deeds that I've really done for anyone - I have got to try harder.

Salam alaikum.

 

[Storm]

:ma::ma:

Jazakallah everybody. May Allah bless you all. Ameen

 

[podolski11]

sometimes in the morning when i wake up and go out there is a cat sitting on top of my dads car pissing on it so i take off my slippers n throw em at it..thats a good deed rite?