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THE REWARD OF BEING KIND TO OTHER PEOPLE

In a Hadith, the Hole Prophet ﷺ said that once a person was presented in Allah Ta’alah’s Court. (Eventually people will be presented in Allah Ta’alah’s Court on the Day of Judgment but may be some people are shown some small sample of that sooner.) Anyways, when he was presented before Allah Ta’alah, Allah Ta’alah told the angels to check what good deeds he had performed. When the angels checked his balance sheet of good and bad acts it was found that his balance sheet was almost completely empty of good deeds. He did not perform any Salah, he did not fast, he just spent all his time in conducting his business. However, the angels further said that there was one good deed in his balance sheet, which was that he had advised his employees that if you ever sell something to a person who is poor, then deal with him with compassionately. If you have given him a loan then don’t be too harsh in demanding that loan back, and when it is appropriate just forgo that loan. So, his entire life his practice in business was to give extension to the poor in returning loans, or if appropriate, to forgive that loan completely. Allah Ta’alah will then say that if he dealt with kindness and forgiveness with My people, then I am more deserving of being forgiving to him. Allah Ta’alah will then order angels to send him to Jannah (paradise). The moral of the story is that dealing with kindness and forgiveness with other human beings pleases Allah Ta’alah greatly.