Saved the handi from burning once...phew! Could've turned into ww3

once i was going to my friends house. and her sister had gotten off the bus in front of me. i was walking behind her and being socially awkward didnt call out to her even though i was technically her friend as well. then we got to her road and crossed it to get to her side of the road. and behind us a big crash, an old man tripped and fell. by the time i registered adn processed the info she was already acrossed the road and helping the man up. (Y)

today i went outside, by myself. that was quite heroic. i even paid my library fines.

Ate a full bag of maltesers because someone could have choked and died on one

If that's not heroic I don't know what is 

TPOS wrote:

Is someone who is for example a firefighter or paramedic/doctor etc a hero or are they "just doing their job", or both?

lol Suhail, well done!

 

no doubt, even though we take them all for granted. Perhaps for them it may just be a job, but they're deffo heroes for the people they help everyday.

I think the people that should be counted amongst the great heroes are the scholars and teachers of the deen. All power is with Allah swt. But we all have a choice and these scholars of old such as ibn kathir and those of the now such as Zahir Mahmood and countless others have made such a noble choice in their lives to serve the ummah, mashAallah, may Allah swt preserve the knowledge they have passed on to the Ummah. 

 
'The life of the Muslim Ummah is solely dependent on the ink of it's scholars and the blood of it's Martyrs' - Sheikh Abdullah Azzam.
 

I was a hero once. The next day I wan't in work and the day after that when I got in, the manager called me in the office and said the lady had come into the shop yesterday and left me a Thank You card and when I opened it, it also had a £25 HMV gift voucher in it.

And another time I had to leave my car parked at a dodgy angel on a corner and help a man take an elderly woman to her fromt door. When we got there, the man was tired and the woman on the first floor so I had to carry her up the stairs all alone. The mad to shoot off and I waited outside the old lady's house until the ambulence crew got there.

Another time, I shouted a woman who's child had dropped his gloves on a freexing cold day.

Another time, I helped a blind man cross the road.

Another time I slowed my car right down when some sheep were in the road just after a blind bend.

I WIN.....

agree with TPOS, you dont have to be selfless to be a hero.

if we didnt care abt anything we wouldnt do anything.

I'm a yellow bellied coward. 

I have never ever done anything heroic. The closest to being a hero was helping someone with their work, and that wasn't anything special either, because its something you're expected to do. I still haven't voted yet, and don't think that'll ever happen either :L

A hero is someone you can depend on 24/7 and they never fail you. Someone you benefit and learn from. Someone who doesn't mind your company, and would sacrifice almost anything for you, who'd be there when you need them the most.

Of course the hero's in our lives are not the paramedics, fire-crew or the police. They weren't there to clothe, feed, watch us grow, or shelter us. 

Those hero's are none other than the one's who saved us from the day we set foot on  earth. Our parents. 

It sounds so cheesy, but if there's one thing that I have learnt, its that we can never thank them enough for what they have done for us, whether we realize it or not. 

so apart from parents, and without counting superheroes. what is a hero?

Resuscitated someone who tried to hang herself.

Dont think it makes me a hero, just in the right place at the right time.

Yeah Suhail has the best definition of a spiritual hero 

Course our parents don't need to always be doing stuff for us, or just be present 24/7 in our lives to be a hero, but you can't deny the fact that they were not successful in guiding us, or keeping us away from 'the straight path'. 

A paramedic or a fire fighter is a hero cause its in their job description. That's what they signed up for, and they'll come nowhere near to the  heroism our parents acquire. Claiming someone a hero who is there because they 'have to be' is a fake. They save lives, so? We might remember what they've done and thank them for it a short while, but after that? But we're always grateful to our parents cause they do things out of their unconditional love, so no- we can't say they are not our heroes, and they deserve so much better than just branding them as 'our heroes!' -_-

Also I don't see  what the word even means. Forget google, why does doing a heroic act, or something that may be seen brave have to be given a tag?! It makes us all a hero then. I think its just a silly excuse for thanking someone. 

But yeah, each to their own I guess.

I al allergic to heroism.

(heroism can also be in the light of duty - just because it is expected doesn't make it less heroic.)

I think everyone can be a hero at one point in their life, but because we don't wake up in the morning telling ourselves 'i want to do something heroic today', whatever we do, 'just to be helpful and nice' is seen as insignificant and small in our eyes, but not in the eyes of other people.

Moving broken glass out of someone's way is being heroic, even though we might not be there to see the benefits of our actions. I don't see myself as a hero, simply because i don't think i've ever done enough to reach that stage and i wouldn't be in the position to judge myself. That's for someone who speaks the truth (without exaggeration) to say.