DON NOT EXPECT PEOPLE TO REPAY YOUR GOOD DEEDS

The second principle described by Hazrat Thanvi Rehmatullah Elaih is that whenever you do a good deed or a favour to anyone do not expect them to repay your favour, rather do it to please Allah Ta'alah. For example if you help a person in some way, intercede on someone's behalf, or show respect for someone, do it with the intention that I am ding it to make Allah Ta'alah happy, and to make my Aakhirah (the Hereafter) better. 

In actual fact it has become a norm in our culture that whenever we do a favour for someone, we then start waiting as to when would they return our favour. And if a situation comes when we expected them to repay our good deed and do something for us, and they didn't do it, we see it as a betrayal and start complaining about them. First we start developing feelings of resentment about it, then we start complaining verbally about t, and sometimes it leads to fights and break up of relationships.

That is why Hazrat Thanvi RE is advising that do not expect a return of your good deeds from human beings. When you do something good for someone only expect a reward from Allah Ta'alah, and not from that person. If you start doing good deeds for people with the sole intention of pleasing Allah Ta'alah then you will never feel disappointed by anyone's bad behaviour again. 

From the talk "Be Like Brothers", by Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani Damat Barakatahum