Forgiveness over Removing a Thorn From the Road
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Friends! What a wonderful Court is that [the Court of Allah]. There, pardon is decreed over slight acts. It is documented in the Hadeeth that a certain person will have no good deeds with him besides that he removed a thorn from the road one day. Apparently, this is a slight and insignificant act. But this was appreciated by Allah Ta’ala and he was pardoned on account of this.
“Your smiling in the face of your brother is a charity for you; enjoining good and forbidding evil is a charity; guiding a man in a misleading land is a charity for you; seeing for (helping) a weak-eyed person is a charity for you; removing a rock, or a thorn, or a bone from the road is a charity for you; and pouring out from your bucket into the bucket of your brother is a charity for you.
Friends! Do not treat lightly any act of good no matter how small it may be. Sometimes a “small” act is accepted, whilst grand acts which pleased one will be rejected
