Moutasem al-Hameedy – The Impact Of Acts Of Kindness

			Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato. This is my Tamil Hamidi for Rashi dune.com. Today
inshallah, we will talk about extending acts of kindness and the impact this has on the quality of
our lives and the quality of our relationship with Allah subhana wa.
		

			extending an act of kindness, what does it mean? You know, a prophet sallallahu Sallam told us in
endless occasions about the importance of extending acts of kindness, doing someone else a favor,
being kind to others, it is at the heart of Islam is the heart and the heart of a man to be good to
other people to extend acts of goodness to help them out, you know, be beneficial wherever you are.
That's part of that's a part and parcel of the essence of our Deen the essence of our relationship
with a loss of power to Ireland, the province of Southern said no one, no one divided, there are
people are there are certain individuals among humanity that that are keys or doorways to goodness.
		

			And these are the ones that a lot of most, and another Hadith and other narration the person have
said, have been nasty, the law and Family Nurse, the people that are dearest to Allah are the ones
that are most helpful to other people, the ones that are most kind to other people. So kindness is
at the heart of our religion is at the heart of our practice as Muslims. So it's strange that
sometimes you find some practicing people, but they don't you don't see guys, if you don't see
kindness in their behavior, you don't see that kind of spirit in the way they carry themselves. So
we want to bring this back to how we relate to our religion, it's that extending acts of kindness,
		

			that's part and parcel of our religion, that's, that's a huge part of what it means to be a Muslim.
And the process also even told us so it gave us so many examples on how to be kind to other people
helping them out and everything, helping them out at times of calamity times of hardship, times of
trouble, be there for the rescue, you know, extend them initiate favors to other people, even if
it's be, it'd be as small as a smile, the profit or loss. And I'm so glad they're all nominal,
maroof, Shea and Willow and Felker Huckabee,
		

			don't ever belittle an act of goodness and act of kindness, even if it be a smile, even if it'd be a
smile is so huge. It's an act of goodness, and it's an act of charity. And the beautiful thing about
charity, you know, let me share with you this recent research has been done on acts of kindness, a
lot of research has been done. And the results are really interesting. They found out that when you
extend an act or initiate an act of kindness towards someone, you actually increase their level of
well being and happiness, you boost their mood, you change the perspective about life as well as you
can, you can create a huge shift in the quality of their lives by just extending a simple act of
		

			kindness. And what's beautiful about it is that when you do it to a stranger, the impact is even
doubled.
		

			And that's not the only thing. The one who benefits more from an act, or the one who benefits most
from an act of kindness is actually yourself, the one who initiates it, the one who extends an act
of Congress, he's the one who benefits most researchers have found that the level of what they call
the happiness hormones or well being hormones, like dopamine,
		

			serotonin, okay, all these hormones and chemicals that influence and will mood influence our sense
of well being and our sense of contentment, they actually increase in the one who extends the act of
goodness and the one who receives it. What's most surprising to me is that, and that's actually the
blessings that Allah gives, with this kind of interaction. Even the observer, a third party who
observes the act of goodness, they experienced something similar, their sense of well being and
happiness and hope increases just because of observing that act of kindness. So imagine how many
blessings how much a goodness allies put in an act of kindness. It's, you know, the, the laws of
		

			math don't function here. It's not like when you give you lose, actually, when you give, you get
even more, and the other person gives more, and the third party observes, is also getting more. So
it's like a perfect win win situation. So that's what it's actually should should push us to do more
acts of kindness, remembering that Allah loves that most, a lot of that most when we are kind to
other people when we are good to other people. So let's make this practical, you know, everyday
leave your home when you leave your home in the morning, or in the evening. Depends what shifts
you're working. Okay? Just make a commitment that I'm going to commit probably one or two or three
		

			acts of kindness. I'm just determined. I'm not going I'm not coming back home until I actually
extend three acts of kindness every day. Okay, so today it's going to be maybe this or that, okay?
What happens you set your brain in a in a mood or in a mode will actually start scanning
		

			opportunities for you to extend acts of kindness. So maybe you'll just probably smile and other
people, maybe you'll just hold the door for the person next to you. Or maybe you'll help an elderly
crossing the street or carrying some of their bags or, which is just, you know, being so nice, maybe
uplifting or other people's spirit. So you bring those out automatically searching for these
opportunities. And you will actually, you know, when you do acts of kindness deliberately, the
impact is so powerful. As I said, You are the one who benefits the most, the person, the receiver
actually benefits so much as well. As I said, you change your perspective, you change their
		

			perspective, and any third person who was in the surrounding in the vicinity, or observing this kind
of act of kindness, you actually change their mood, you change their perspective about life. So
imagine how much goodness and love put in this. So that's a simple, practical thing to do, we just
do it, everyone seems to win with that. And by doing so we can actually uplift a whole society,
doing that intentionally and creating that ripple effect. And imagine you might be as a simple act
of kindness as a smile, you smile at a stranger, and it changed their mood. And they go about
extending, as the research actually shows that when a person receives an act of kindness, they're
		

			more likely to extend an act of kindness to a third person. So they've become more positive, and
they want to do more of these acts of kindness to others. So use might want to one person this smile
might actually reach 1000 people, 10,000 people, probably a million people you don't know. And with
everyone, you've changed their life. And with everyone, you've got so much reward from Allah
subhanaw taala, because you are the, you know, the root cause of that kind of kindness. Imagine how
many blessings Allah has made available for us. And most of us don't really appreciate them. So
simple acts of kindness, are so powerful and profound in our lives. And that these are the acts of
		

			good goodness, that creates so much reserved for us with a lot of antalis at times of hardship, they
will come to your rescue, at times of difficulty, Allah will, you know, you know, make this, this
credit that we have built with him of acts of kindness alone will make that actually work for us
come to our help, other times of need, so why not just do it. And so this is my advice to you and to
myself, I know when I acted, I tried to act on this as much as I could. And it has really changed so
many things in my life is made clear it brought about so much positivity. And I realized you know,
you don't lose when you extend active life, you don't lose when you give you don't lose. When you
		

			give you don't lose it just giving for yourself, you know, multiple times over. So that's from the
blessings of Allah subhanaw taala. So if you find this video, inspiring, beneficial, and you feel it
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people that's an act of kindness By the way, share it with other people, share with your family,
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