Kindness means screaming out the truth when everyone is silent.  “Islamophobia killed my brother. Let’s end the hate!”   Fighting Hate Crimes and Islamophobia Through Kindness In the face of an overwhelming Islamophobia Suzanne Barakat rings the alarm bells that whoever is marginalized as “other” in the society runs the...

“Kindness is lighting a candle instead of screaming out to the darkness… I am not planning to retire from this job. As long as I am alive with God’s blessing, I will keep serving the children who cannot go to school.”   A Pakistani fire-fighter, Muhammed Eyüp teaches poor children...

Kindness has butterfly effect. It starts with baby steps and turns to a big march one day.   An Act of Kindness: Book Markers Merve Çirişoğlu Çotur started making bookmarkers with her friends while studying at Bosphorus University in 2011. These college mates had a cause to produce markers, which...

“Mountains are barren… Remove the garbage, Sow a seed, Mend the fences. Don’t just walk past by it!”   “Trees that I have planted exceeds one million now. Some grew so big and strong so much so that I can even sit on their branches. It gives me absolute happiness....

“Young kids leap forward from five-flight of stairs to come hug me. I have hundreds of children and grandchildren now.”   Parents of Refugees Cavit Etleç, a 65-year-old retired carpenter who lives in Ulubey neighbourhood in Ankara and his wife Hafize Etleç have been married for 45 years. They are...

There are times when a single man can change the life of millions. To be able to muster the courage to take that first step is all it takes. Abdurrahman Swar al-Dahab lighted a torch to enable Africa stand on its own feet. Regardless of his old age 82-year old...

You should see what they are doing before you can understand people`s situation. We should have sympathy and empathize with them. She is a mother… A wife… A doctor curing people in the hospital… A goodwill ambassador running to help out the people in disaster struck areas Dr. Jemilah Mahmood…...

Mine is some kind of love, deep love. It is not like the love of Laila and Majnun, neither like Asli and Kerem’s, nor it is like Shereen and Farhad. This love is driven by the desire to be a drop in the ocean of kindness. Once you have caressed...

World does not know the things we know. We can’t let the things run as they do now. This, THIS cannot continue. Can nobody stop this?” We as scientists and doctors cannot remain silent against the horrors that the humanity is facing. Mads Gilbert is a Norwegian doctor. He stood...

“Repel [evil] by that [deed] which is better” (Quran 41:34) She had tried blocking, muting, ignoring or engaging them. But none of them felt like she was embodying the Quranic injunction of driving off darkness with light. After putting in some thought she finally came up with an idea to...