2. Kindness means that we recognize that
others are fragile ( that we have the power
to hurt or heal them ) and we choose to be
healers. When we are kind, we don't take
advantage of our power or of other people's
vulnerabilities. Instead, we seek to
comfort, encourage and strengthen those
around us.
3. To be kind requires empathy: we must
consciously attune ourselves to the life
experience of another being to know
what will feel good for them. Kindness
builds confidence, because it lets us see
others in all of their complicated, needy
humanity, rather than putting them
on pedestals.
4. Kindness does not ask whether it will be
repaid. Even so, our kindness often
ripples through the world around us; it
invites others to be kind in turn.
5. 'A'isha (ra)reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless
him and grant him peace, said,
"Whenever kindness is in a thing it adorns it, and
whenever it is removed from anything, it disfigures
it."
[Muslim]