A grumpy, mean kid at school sits alone every day at lunch. The teacher asked Yusuf to sit with him, but Yusuf didn't want to - why should he be kind to someone who isn't kind to anyone? Baba tells him about Prophet Isa, whose every miracle was an act of mercy: healing the blind, curing the leper, giving hope to those everyone else had given up on. Isa didn't wait for people to earn his kindness - he led with it. A story about compassion, reaching out to the lonely, and how a kind word can heal a hurting heart.

The lesson: Being kind to someone who is unkind is one of the hardest things you can do, but also one of the most beautiful. Sometimes people are grumpy because they’re hurting inside.

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Sources: 3:45–51 (Angels announce Isa to Maryam; miracles described: clay birds, healing the blind and leper, raising the dead); 5:110–112 (Allah recounts His favours to Isa: the holy Spirit, speaking in the cradle, miracles, the disciples’ belief); Stories of the Prophets by Ibn Kathir, Ch. 27 (Isa’s birth, Maryam’s story, the baby speaking in the cradle, miracles of mercy, and Allah raising him to heaven)

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Quran translation graciously provided by Clear Quran, with permission from Talal Itani.