Please share your random acts of kindness in the comments below- no matter how small kindness never goes to waste.
- Ensure they are short and pithy. Random acts of kindness aims to be as epigram-esque as possible
- You may may multiple submissions- there is no limit
- Please state the source of your submission and make it clear if they are yours and if you wish to be attributed
- Please ensure something similar to your act of kindness is not already published (if it is you may contribute in the comments)
Select entries will be published on the Don’t be sad blog and catalogued for others to refer to and will be awarded The Kind blogger badge when next they are announced (dependant on volume of submissions).
In addition to sharing you acts of kindness here please share:
- Your stories with Don’t be sad by commenting directly on each each of kindness.
- Do bring to attention and worth community projects, movements or organisations that relate to specific acts of kindness directly in the comments of that act.
May The God give you the best reward and thank you.
That’s an excellent idea. Also if people can post anonymously that ‘ll be cool too.
Amina Ae Sook,
Thank you for your comment.
You idea for anonymous submission is also excellent! I’ve have been trying to configure Don’t be sad to accept comments for extra-wordpress users, however, haven’t yet been successful.
I’m not sure what other way it might let readers post without giving details- perhaps an email.
Please do visit back with your Random acts of kindness.
UPDATE: It is now possible to comment without being a wordpress user, which is a step forward. If you wish to be anonymous, please submit with a pseudonym with correct email (this will not be published).
Wa alaikum assalaam warehmatullahi wabarakatahu 😀
iA all is well with you. Jazakillah khair for visiting my blog.
Acts of Kindness:
–Carry little things to give to kids in your purse (coloring books, toys, etc. —not candy because it may make the parents nervous)
–If while using a public restroom, one of the stalls is not in use due to filth, clean it and help the line go faster.
–On a train, always let women, children and the elderly sit before you.
–At a grocery store, offer to carry the bags of the elderly to their car and run off before they can think of giving you a tip.
Peace be upon you Doa,
Thank you for coming by to the Random acts of kindness submissions page and contributing.
I was delighted to read your acts of kindness! God willing, they will be considered for publication on the blog in the coming days. Would you like them to be attributed to you? You may email me your preference if you don’t wish to comment here.
Please do visit back Don’t be sad to explore further- I look forward to your feedback.
Salams,
Very good idea.
Suggestion –
In these icy cold winter mornings we usually have to scrape ice off of our car windscreens before driving to work. How about scraping off the ice off of a neighbors car as well?
(I got this idea from my sister, who used to do this for me without telling me, the bonehead that I am I thought it was some sort of karama that my car was the only one on the road not covered in ice)
And peace be upon you Borderline Majnun,
Thank you for taking the time to submit a suggestion, its very good of you.
It makes great reading and is testament to how such simple kind acts can touch our lives.
Your submission will be considered in due course, The God willing.
I encourage you to visit again an post any more suggestions you may have at Don’t be sad.
no need to attribute those to me..
salaam
As-salaamu’alaykum wa Rahmatu Llahi wa Barakatuhu
We have so many talented sisters who knit, sew and crochet.
Use all your extra pieces and create a pretty scarf (or hat/gloves) for a homeless person.
Wa’alaykum as-salaam
Farhana
And peace be upon you too, Farhana
Farhana– Thank you for your beautiful submission. Don’t be sad will consider it for publication along with the submissions in the near future. You’ll be notified as soon as any progress is made.
See you again at Don’t be sad- to share views and do good.
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Salaam,
I’ve been trying to redeem myself for hurting a dear friend of mine. I’ve been very miserable and devastated about it. We haven’t spoken in a while.. I don’t know if we’ll ever talk again and it just makes me feel like a bad human being. I pray that God forgives me…
In the days that followed our separation, I did not want to turn away from opportunities of helping others…
– I stopped my car the other day because there was a recycling bin standing in the center of the street.. I pulled over, put my hazards on, and got out to move it out of the way.
– I saw an old man’s car break down while waiting at a red light. A group of young high school students got out of their car to help give the old man’s car a push, but it looked like they needed help since the car wasn’t moving that much. When the light turned green, I drove and pulled over. I got out and gave them a hand. We successfully helped give the old man the head start he needed to get his car running again.
– I always let people make their turns when they’re trying to pull out of drive-ways.
– My dear friend that I mentioned above once wanted to pay for lunch, but I paid instead. She gave me the money for her food but I didn’t want to accept it. We argued a little over it, but eventually, she made me take it because she was just going to leave it on the bench. I kept the money, but never spent it . I donated it to charity at my local mosque yesterday while making a little dua’
– When I worked part-time at CVS, there was one old lady who always had trouble with loading her groceries to her car. I helped her once, and since then, she would always ask my help whenever she shopped.
– A young boy couldn’t afford to buy chocolate and looked like was about to cry, so I gave him an extra dollar.
You may attribute these to me. Thanks for reading.
~Jehanzeb
Peace be upon you Jehanzab,
Thank you for coming by to Don’t be sad. It was very good of you to take the time to share these random acts of kindness. Each little story is wonderful. In time, they will be considered for publication on Don’t be sad and you will be notified of this soon.
Remember, after hardship comes ease.
Do come again- you are most welcome here.
*Pay for the car behind you on a toll road
*Give flowers to toll booth workers
These are both things my mom and I did when I was coming home/going to college along a toll road.
*Smile, it’s charity (hadith Riyad as Salihin 121)
*Remove an obstacle from the road (Hadith Riyad as Salihin 122, 127)
*Help someone load their stuff into their car (Hadith Riyad as Salihin 122)
*Feed a stray animal (Hadith Riyad as Salihin 126)
*Plant a tree (Hadith Riyad as Salihin 135)
*Give bottled drinks to the homeless (Hadith Riyad as Salihin 138)
http://www.sunnipath.com/Library/Hadith/H0004P0013.aspx
Peace be upon you Rahma,
It was very good of you to take the time to visit Don’t be sad and making your submission. Thank you for supporting the Random acts of Kindness project.
Your wonderful submissions will be considered for publication in due course- if they are selected and published on the blog you will be notified.
Once again thank you for your wonderful contribution. Please do visit Don’t be sad again you are very welcome here.
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Love your website.
Here’s a random act of kindness:
Praise your mum’s/wife’s cooking today. It will warm her heart!
(Inspired by my daughter, who came into the kitchen carrying her finished bowl and spoon saying, “Wow, Mom, that halwa was yummy!”
It did make me feel good!)
Peace be upon you mummyjaan,
Thank you for taking the time to submit your act of kindness. Really, very beautiful- we can learn so very much from children (have you ever read to your daughter Little Prince by Saint-Exupery? I can thoroughly recommend it for both your children.)
I’m away from Dont be sad for a few more days and The God willing this will be posted promptly.
Once again, thank you for your participation and regards to your daughter-
Dont be sad
PS: If you would like her name to be posted, please let Dont be sad know.
get at eye level with child in a wheelchair and tell them how beautiful they are, even if they don’t understand the words, they’ll understand the gesture..mom will be encouraged & motivated…
be sensitive towards the elderly, help them in a dignified way just by listening respectfully..even if you’re not interested..
simple good deeds, big results..
Peace be upon you suhaa,
Very good of you to visit Dont be sad again– really.
These will be considered for publication and The God willing you will be contacted about progress in the next few days.
Thank you for taking the time to submit these beautiful acts.
Simple deeds and big results, indeed.
Do visit again.
peace be with you, dbs.
this is my contribution:
Fix drips from tap
Carry a wrench, washers and a spare tap. whenever you come across a leaking tap with water dripping, fix it by changing the washer or by completely changing the tap.
Try it out and you’ll feel good after having done so.
The sign of a strong iman is, when we do good things, we feel good about it and when we do bad things (nauzubillah) we feel bad about it.
salaam
exzede
So beautiful idea mashaAllah. You are doing such a great job, keep up! 🙂
I can recommend donating for people of Gaza at http://www.islamic-relief.com, for example. Our brothers, sisters and children are in great need for our help. If not able with money, than at least make doa for them. Every day, after every salah. Just don’t let them out of your heart…
Many salaams from Bosnia
Peace be upon you both
exzede- Good of you to share you act of kindness. The God willing in the coming days it will be considered for publication. It would be curious to know how you actually came by the idea? Please do share.
leila- Welcome to Dont be sad and thank you for taking the time to share your act of kindness. It is really worthwhile. In the coming days it will be considered for publication.
Once again, thank you for both for your contribution. Do come again.
salaam dbs,
I travelled quite a lot and I’d stop by masjids and musollahs for solat and when performing ablution, I would see some taps dripping. so it didn’t take seconds to tighten up the taps because soemone used it and was in a hurry maybe. sometimes the tap is faulty or the rubber washer just got worn out. so I’ll keep a wrench, some washers and a spare tap inside my car, and make sure taps doesn’t drip anymore.
mm… there goes my well kept secret 🙂
salaam
exzede
Peace be upon you exzede,
Good of you to come by.
Thank you for sharing your heart warming story/ well kept secret. Hopefully it will encourage other readers to do the same.
Do visit again, your contribution is much valued.
Alot of the things mentioned by the brothers/sisters have been mashallah very good. However as muslims we shouldn’t forget that we should apply these things to non-muslims as much as we do to muslims.
The results of this could make the non-muslims keen about Islam and if you convert them into a muslim through such a small act then surely allah-subhana-watalla will be pleased with you.
Aarib, 15, london.
Peace be upon you Aarib,
Welcome to Dont be sad blog. Thank you for taking the time to post your comment- it is very valid and a reminder for us all. Random acts of kindness are for us all- kindness is part of our shared humanity.
Please do feel most welcome to post your ideas again. Thank you.
Salaam,
Yesterday I let a mother with two children to go pass before me on the long queue at the check out in the supermarket because her eldest baby (which I think about 18 months old) was very keen to take everything down from the nearby displays. Everything the little one touched was falling down to the floor making so much noise and the mother was starting to look frustrated and embarrassed because all eyes were on them and her very active baby.
Having a young child myself I know that standing in a long queue with babies can be torturing especially when they’re tired, hungry or bored and irritated.
Coincidently that day I didn’t have my toddler with me which allowing me to stand in the queue just a little longer without worrying that she might get bored and cranky.
Wassalam,
NoorIntan
And peace be upon you NoorIntan,
How good of you to come by and leave a comment. Very genous of you to share your stories with us, they were touching. Small things, small kindness, everyday…
Visit again.
I saw a dog wandering my neighborhood, and after I realized it was not a neighbor’s dog, I worried it was lost. I love and have compassion for animals and have a doted-on dog myself, so I hoped an owner was looking for this scruffy-looking (direly needed a haircut!) fellow.
It took quite a bit of work to get this little stranger to a safe place (both ID tags led to dead ends, including that the owner had his phone disconnected), but he was picked up eventually. I waited an hour or two to find someone to get him. In the meantime, I wondered if he had wandered far and set out food and water–he ate most of the food and had a drink. It made me happy to help; animals are so much more helpless than we are and generally just want a little love.
-eSprout
Peace be upon you esprout,
Welcome to Dont be sad blog. Very good of you to take the time to leave a submission and share your experiences with us.
Thank you. You may like this post:https://dontbesadblog.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/a-stray/
Do please visit again.
It has happened on my return home from the baker’s shop. I saw the women who stumbled and fall down. The dusty blacktop was colored with her blood. I drooped down my bread for to give my hand to the women. She was helped to stand up and her thank you joined our hearts.
As I recall the above, my daily bread on the ground hurts my eyes now. It is painful to visualize the story such way, but can I silence the truth? In case the story would repeat itself, I too would repeat my bad action- my bread would appear on the ground again.
The confusion helped me to grasp. Acts of kindness are like the healing of the raising dawn and they comes as if out of itself. However, if we want to report what was done good by us, our bread appears on the dirt underfoot – the truth becomes the boasting for self . In other words, the truth becomes the worm in the bud.
Sincerely yours
Tomas
The dawn awakens the Acts of kindness and the baby’s day becomes the bussy one. It was hard even to notice the moment when time to go to bed arived. Yet the Acts of kindness didn’t cease. They simply changed the playground and put on the suit of the mental activity for a moment.
This change of seasons was the greatest test of my persistence in good will. Just think. It is hard even to imagine the rejoicing over the life in the hospital for the people with psychiatric disorders that I have entered after the trauma that has changed my life. I could weep bitter tears and curse my sad destiny, but the blog Modus Vivendi was started in the result. It was much more than just a chronicle of the art therapy club. It was my deliberate action of the exchange of the complaints for personal sickness into the joyful reports about the discovery of the new life through personal participation in the sharing of the beauty of the heavenly colors that make the random acts of kindness the way of life of our club and mine in the concrete.
The call Be Kind Blogger depicts our outlook towards the world. That’s only way to retain the dawn. Thus the being on your list means the being alive.
Thank you.
http://trustlight.blogspot.com/
[…] Random acts of kindness are the tiny seed, but that’s the magical seed – it soon bloom out with the delicious fruit tree and the fiesta becomes unforgettable. Though i am a greenhorn in computer, but was titled as the honorable master. The praise uplifts, of course, but that brings the confusion too. Am I worthy indeed the praise? What was done by me in the concrete? It was I who ought to thank for a cup of coffee, isn’t it? […]
While wandering around my town I became weary and thus entered the medical society. I cheerfully welcomed everybody here, but nobody heard me- all were in the real turmoil. Nobody knew how to print the document which part was colored in red. The question may look the childish, but it was the problem. It costs nothing to me to adjust the printer, but it was hard to forget the further events. All burst into the hottest thank you and we were drinking coffee for a long.
Random acts of kindness are the tiny seed, but that’s the magical seed – it soon bloom out with the delicious fruit tree and the fiesta becomes unforgettable. Though i am a greenhorn in computer, but was titled as the honorable master. The praise uplifts, of course, but that brings the confusion too. Am I worthy indeed the praise? What was done by me in the concrete? It was I who ought to thank for a cup of coffee, isn’t it?
It is inappropriate to end the post with the questions. Therefore let me do though something good now. I want to share the wonderful words that I have read today. “Unless a person has compassion to all living things, he will not find peace within himself.” Maria Luisa Taa Venida so write about herself on her blog. I feel myself just blessed to quote her now. That’s more honorable than recalling what was done by me. In other words, Lets Thank you become our chronicler.
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I would greatly appreciate if my blog Arthiker http://arthiker.wordpress.com/ would be included in your list
Thank you for your trust.
Homeless cat was published on http://trustlight.blogspot.com/2008/06/homeless-cat.html
I run the cat run away. Do I lost the right to get The Kind Blogger badge?
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while I was looking through my window, a homeless cat was drowsing under the sun. I quickly run out, pick up the cat and uplifted him. As I cuddle the cat, my breast was flooded with the incredible warmth, but the cat fearfully mewled, he not rejoiced at the unexpectedly received security in my shelter, but was in a fear. What were my true intentions? Did I care for the homeless, or just wanted the love from other for a free?
Many of us need help, but does anybody rejoice over the forced charity? Just think. Though my penny may help a poor make his bread, yet the charity don’t provide the security out of itself. The alms enslave the receiver and makes the poor the beggars. Thus the acts of kindness may turn upside down. Does it mean the generosity don’t exist at all? No, it is not so. Yet the acceptance of the goodness is harder than endure the hurricane. Because we need the faith that can’t be trained through gym.
I let the cat run away and my grateful look followed him for a long. I was taught the great lesson: the acts of kindness happen when our left hand is unaware about the works of the right. We either love or muse about the profit of the love and then earn then curse for the pharisaic attitude.
The acts of kindness are the sunbeans that make us happy on a beach, but the sun can painfully burn us in case we misuse the heavenly grace.
Peace be upon you,
Thank you for sharing your kind and encouraging words. Your blogs will be added in time.
Do visit again.
First off, this is an excellent place. Kudos to you for starting such an effort.
When i was at school, i was a ‘nobody’. When i went to university, i bloomed and became one of the most popular people there. At that stage, i remembered how much the word of a popular person meant to me at school and i started taking time out for people who liked to keep themselves in th background. My own experience had made me realize how positive an effect i could have.
I’m happy to report that two people whom i had ‘benefited’ in the only way i knew how came to me after we finished University and related a story to me where something i had told them about themselves made them believe in their capabilities again and how they were better persons for it. Mission accomplished. I had given back some of that to the world which i had taken from it. 🙂
What a great blog space. Will enjoy coming back again and again. Keep creating positive energy!
Always try to encourage people alot as soon as you come to know about their abilities or talents …… if you are parent’s then please appreciate and encourage your kids ….. if you are siblings then please encourage, appreciate and support your brother’s and sisters ….. if you are friends then please appreciate and encourage each other ….. it really helps to know that someone appreciates your efforts and recognizes it ….. I’ve been through all this so now I’ve made it a mission in life that whenever I meet people and get to know them and as soon as I recognise their talents or abilities I try to encourage them and appreciate their abilities ….. and I luv to see people happy around me ….. rather I want to see people around me ……. coz when they are happy it makes me happy too 🙂 …..
Each and every person is unique and special in their own way …… only that most people don’t realize it …. it’s a pitty though ….
This quote is from “Don’t Be Sad” book : “Show mercy to the weak and you will be happy; give to the needy and you will be well; do not bear grudges and you will be healthy.”
This is from a hadith: “Even a smile to your brother is charity.”
When my son was between the ages of four and eight, as I would tuck him into bed at night, I would ask him to mention one kind thing he had done during the day. He loved this and would proudly report something like: “I held the door open for a man at the gas station who had his hands full,” or “I moved my bike off the jogging trail so the Mom with a baby stroller had more room”, or “I told my kindergarten teacher her new hair cut was pretty”.
I would often witness these kind acts while I was with him and watch as he would give me a smile knowing that we would talk about it at bedtime. This was something we both enjoyed and helped instill the importance of kindness into my young child. He is too big to be tucked into bed now, but we still share reports of kind acts when we are eating dinner or driving to football practice.
Parent kindness!
Tina Mansfield
http://www.string-ring.com
Beautiful Blog….Thanks for the work you do!
I work for a new start up company in Ireland, (Acts of Random Kindness Limited or Ark for short) , that sells ethical t-shirts with one simple idea behind it. Every time you wear a shirt, you perform one act of Act of Random Kindness, or an Ark as we like to call it – it’s almost an everyday reminder, you’re always on the look out while wearing it) – Anyway, one of the guys I work with did a great Ark way back in May.It involves a guy with crazy hair and lots of hugs but this wee video explains it way better than I could in words! – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z6QGB1xuhg – let me know if you like it!