Allah (SWT) encourages men to extend common fairness and kindness. Namely, giving her the mahr and not taking it back once it has been given. These verses expound on the basics of kindness a man should extend toward his wife. In pre-Islamic Arabia, women pretty much had no status in society. Live with them in accordance with what is fair and kind: if you dislike them, it may well be that you dislike something in which God has put much good.” You who believe, it is not lawful for you to inherit women against their will, nor should you treat your wives harshly, hoping to take back some of the bride-gift you gave them, unless they are guilty of something clearly outrageous. When we reach an age and maturity where marriage becomes the next step in our lives, our duty to the person we marry becomes just as important as our duty to our parents. And God ends the verse by giving us a beautiful dua we can regularly recite for our parents. Any of you who have parents who met extreme old age (80-90+) will know it’s almost like raising a baby in terms of the attention they need. As a form of kindness, God asks we do the same for them when they reach old age. We could never tell our parents were being patient because they gave us so much love and affection.

Throughout the first 18-21 years of our life, our parents have regularly needed to exercise patience with us. When we entered adolescence, we became rebellious and disobeyed our parents. As we grew older, our needs changed, yet our parents kept meeting them. As much as our parents love us, raising kids is difficult. Simultaneously, we must be kind to our parents. The most important thing in our life is to worship God, which covers all the compulsory duties of praying, fasting, and hajj. God is more direct in His command to us to show kindness to our parents: Kindness to parents isn’t only a good deed but a form of worship of God. God wants us to imbibe the qualities of the best of creation so that we may achieve a goodly station in the hereafter. God deliberately reveals certain things about his prophets to show us the mark of a good human being. Allah (SWT) could have described his prayers, fasting and level of charity, but He used this verse to single out his kindness to his parents. God could have said so much more about Yahya. Kind to his parents, not domineering or rebellious.” Allah (SWT), when listing the qualities of Prophet Yahya (as), includes a verse about his kindness to parents as one of his good attributes: Kindness to ParentsĪfter God, our obedience should be directed towards our parents as long as they’re not telling us to do something haram or that would cause us harm and excessive difficulty.Īll the Prophets were kind to their parents.

Every act of kindness makes a positive impression on our souls until it becomes second nature. Here, God says a hypocrite is someone unable to do the basics of kindness – even those acts that don’t require significant sacrifice.Īs believers, we should always look for opportunities to show kindness. “Common kindness” here refers to general acts of kindness the majority of the human race are accustomed to, such as helping an old lady cross the road to holding the door open for someone walking behind us. Verse four starts, “woe be to the hypocrites,” and the verses that follow describe the signs of hypocrisy. Among these are those who do not demonstrate kindness. In chapter 107 of the Holy Quran, Al-Maun, Allah (SWT) spends a few verses listing the qualities of the hypocrites. Here are 10 verses to memorise on kindness. In this article, we want to share some beautiful Quranic verses on kindness to illustrate the importance of being kind. Allah (SWT) is kind, so we should be too.īy no stretch of the imagination is this an exhaustive list.Allah (SWT) is The Helper, so we should help others as much as possible.Allah (SWT) repeatedly forgives us, so we should try and forgive others as much as possible.Allah (SWT) is patient with us, so we should be patient with others.The believer is encouraged to adopt as many character traits from Allah (SWT) as possible: Allah’s (SWT) mercy is mentioned countless times, and His mercy is a form of his Kindness. The few references to kindness does not mean Allah (SWT) is selectively or sparingly kind. Allah (SWT) refers to Himself as ‘kind’ in four verses in the Qur’an (depending on the translation used).

Kindness in arabic transliteration