Kindness benfits both, the giver and receiver. Kind words and kind deeds are a sure way of winning God’s grace. The best and the easiest way of pleasing God is to serve mankind by wiping the tears of others in grief and sorrow. We can serve humanity through kind words of comfort, by feeding the hungry and cheering the depressed.
“Little deeds of kindness,
Little deeds of love,
Make this earth an Eden,
Like the heaven above.”
All religions of the world have preached love and kindness to all living things. Kindness is not confined to human beings alone, but to all living things also. Hazrat Muhammad (SAW) warned People against cruelty to animals. He advised his people to treat them with kindness. Hazrat Muhammad (SAW) used to relate to his companions the instance of a Jewish women. SShe was punished by God for straving her cat to death. Hazrat Muhammad (SAW) also used to relate another story of a women who found a dog dying of thirst. She took off shoe and lowered it into nearby well and drew water from it .She gave it to the thirst dog to drink . This good deed earned her God’s forgiveness for all her previous sins.
Animals serve us in various ways. Horse, mules and donkeys are used for pulling carts on which things are transported from one place to another. Cows and goats give milk on which small children feed. We should be kind to animals, birds and even small insects, like a firefly a bee.
Abdullah bin Masud(R.A) Relates,”while we were on a journey in the company of Hazrat Muhammad (SAW) we saw two young doves sitting in a nest. We caught the young baby birds. When their mother returned to the nest she began to fly wildly round the nest.”When Hazrat Muhammad (SAW) arrived at the spot and came to know the incident, he (SAW) said,”If anyone of you has caught the birds ,he must relese them at once to comfort the mother bird.”
Abdullah bin Masud (R.A) relates that on anther occasion they placed some straw on an anthill and set fire to it. They were cured by Hazrat Muhammad (SAW).
Hazrat Muhammad (SAW) said that animals should not be branded on the face as it is a very sensitive part of the body. If at all the animal is to be branded, it should be branded on its back.
A universal law has been introduced to stop the killing of animals or treating them cruelly. There is a “world society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals”.
A universal law prevents killing and hunting of animals for personal hunt. This shows thw concern of this society for preventing animals from the cruelty of man.
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