Rasulullah SA states:<\/p>\n
\u201cCompleting an act of kindness is better than starting it\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Resolving to do good is a noble intention in and of itself. Yet, to truly have an everlasting impact, to bring about positive change, you need to see it through. Many of us are like a bottle of Coke; we get stirred into action and shaken into doing something, only to fizzle out if we leave things open and unfinished. Somehow a flat bottle of Coke just doesn\u2019t have the same oomph as that first, delicious swig.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We\u2019ve all been there; come New Year\u2019s and we\u2019re full of honourable intentions, and within a few weeks, what we started seems as though it didn\u2019t even exist in the first place. It takes a certain dedication to see things through. That is the mark of commitment and that\u2019s what it takes to make a difference to somebody else.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This hadeeth mubarak<\/em> is the spirit of the \u2018Fostership\u2019 initiative of Moula. To just give money, or new clothes to a fellow mumin is easy enough; to take on responsibility of his material and spiritual welfare on an ongoing basis, is a far greater challenge but with far reaching effects and many more positive consequences.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kindness is born out of a want and willingness to do for others \u2013 altruistically. If that is genuinely the case, then the nobility of that intention will naturally pull you through to the end. Kindness is not a one-act show; it is about a becoming, a transformation from the self-centred individual to someone who recognises that his life is intertwined with others. So completing an act of kindness is as much about making sure you make a difference to others as it is about completing your own self<\/em>. That is why it is better to finish it than to begin it \u2013 you\u2019re not only making a difference to others, but you too are becoming more than you were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rasulullah SA states: \u201cCompleting an act of kindness is better than starting it\u201d Resolving to do good is a noble intention in and of itself. Yet, to truly have an everlasting impact, to bring about positive change, you need to see it through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3044,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions\/3044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}