Part of having concern for others is to share in their
feelings
and to show them that their worries are your worries,
and that
you love good for them.
For this reason, one would find that professional
companies
always have a Public Relations department, whose role
is to send
seasonal greetings, gifts, and so on. Whenever one
shows people
that they are valued and cared for, he captures their
hearts and
they then love him.
Here is a real-life example of this: If a person were to enter
a place full of people and could not find a place to sit, and one
was to move a little and offer him some space saying: “Please
come here and have a seat”, he would recognise his concern for
him and this would endear him to him. Or, if one was at a dinner
party and you noticed him holding his plate, looking for a table
with empty space, and he therefore vacated a seat for him, saying:
“Welcome! Please have a seat here,” he would have noticed
the concern for him. Therefore, if one shows people that he values
them, they would love him.
The Prophet would give utmost importance to this. Look
at when he was delivering a sermon once on his pulpit
one Friday,
and suddenly a Bedouin entered the mosque, walked
through
the rows, looked at the Messenger of Allah and
said in a loud
voice: “O Messenger of Allah, I am a person who does
not know
what his religion is. Teach me what my religion is!”
The Prophet descended from his pulpit and turned to the
man. He asked for a chair, then sat on it, and then began to speak
to the man and explain to him his religion until he understood.
He then returned to the pulpit.
This is a demonstration of having the utmost care for
people.
Who knows, if he had ignored him, the man may have remained
ignorant with regards to his religion until he died.
If we were to learn about his character, we would find that
when he would shake someone’s hand, he wouldn’t withdraw his
hand until the other person withdrew his hand first. If a person
were to speak to him, he would completely turn towards him,
meaning that he would turn his face and body towards him, in
order to listen with full attention.
Experience…
…tells us that whenever you show people that you value and
care for them, you capture their hearts and are thus endeared
to them.
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