What is a Good Deed?
What is a Good Deed?
It sounds like a very simple question, but what really is a good deed? Helping someone, exercising patience in calamity, serving the jamat and other members of society? Many of us help others in the hope that we will recieve some sort of reward- money, reputation, respect.. so would such an act of good deed be rewarded by Allah?
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Re: What is a Good Deed?
I think an act which doesn’t hurt others is a good deed. We are human n if we don’t expect reward form Allah then for whom we must expect after all in Quran its mentioned many time that Allah will reward us for our good deeds.samirziz wrote:It sounds like a very simple question, but what really is a good deed? Helping someone, exercising patience in calamity, serving the jamat and other members of society? Many of us help others in the hope that we will recieve some sort of reward- money, reputation, respect.. so would such an act of good deed be rewarded by Allah?
I think an act expecting reward is initial stage of doing good deed but later it doesn’t remain same…!
Zubair Mahamood
In my opinion a good deed is that which enhances your wellbeing and happiness and which leads you towards your purpose and destiny - to be in the presence of God. A vice is something that makes you unhappy and leads you to hell.
The following are some pertinent verses from ginans.
hojire maaraa hansaa,
karnee kamaavo to rab jee su(n) raacho
O my (dear) soul! (hansaa), earn good deeds so that you may live in the Lord's presence.
aapnne jeevdde kee chee(n)taa re momanbhaai keeje
aapne jeevddeku(n) dozakh na deeje..illaahee.................1
O brother momins, be mindful about the condition of your souls and do not condemn your souls to hell.
saachee sukareet laeene chaalajo,
nahee(n) to paddaso lakh choraasee maa(n)e jee...............5
Go forth with true good deeds, for otherwise you will fall into the eighty-four lakhs (hell).
MHI in his message to the Seerat Conference alluded to virtuous qualities by way of reference to the example of Prophet Muhammad as:
"The Holy Prophet's life gives us every fundamental guideline that we require to resolve the problem as successfully as our human minds and intellects can visualize. His example of integrity, loyalty, honesty, generosity both of means and of time, his solicitude for the poor, the weak and the sick, his steadfastness in friendship, his humility in success, his magnanimity in victory, his simplicity, his wisdom in conceiving new solutions for problems which could not be solved by traditional methods, without affecting the fundamental concepts of Islam, surely all these are foundations which, correctly understood and sincerely interpreted, must enable us to conceive what should be a truly modern and dynamic Islamic Society in the years ahead."
The following are some pertinent verses from ginans.
hojire maaraa hansaa,
karnee kamaavo to rab jee su(n) raacho
O my (dear) soul! (hansaa), earn good deeds so that you may live in the Lord's presence.
aapnne jeevdde kee chee(n)taa re momanbhaai keeje
aapne jeevddeku(n) dozakh na deeje..illaahee.................1
O brother momins, be mindful about the condition of your souls and do not condemn your souls to hell.
saachee sukareet laeene chaalajo,
nahee(n) to paddaso lakh choraasee maa(n)e jee...............5
Go forth with true good deeds, for otherwise you will fall into the eighty-four lakhs (hell).
MHI in his message to the Seerat Conference alluded to virtuous qualities by way of reference to the example of Prophet Muhammad as:
"The Holy Prophet's life gives us every fundamental guideline that we require to resolve the problem as successfully as our human minds and intellects can visualize. His example of integrity, loyalty, honesty, generosity both of means and of time, his solicitude for the poor, the weak and the sick, his steadfastness in friendship, his humility in success, his magnanimity in victory, his simplicity, his wisdom in conceiving new solutions for problems which could not be solved by traditional methods, without affecting the fundamental concepts of Islam, surely all these are foundations which, correctly understood and sincerely interpreted, must enable us to conceive what should be a truly modern and dynamic Islamic Society in the years ahead."