Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Du’a and Taqwa Miracle
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A customer talks about a friend who wants to get out of a debt cycle and explains that he wants to work for free for the next 12 months. The friend writes an email to his boss and tells him that he wants to work for free for the next 12 months. The customer emphasizes that the friend wants to work for free and that reliance is needed for higher things to happen.
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Another example, a friend of mine, again, who was in my community, he
used to work for a. And he does, he works for a software firm
accounting software niche niche.
And he's been with them for a number of years. He's a very good
employee of theirs and so on. And he had a mortgage on his house.
Now interest based mortgage, he's been trying to come out of it for
a number of years, I know, he's been trying to pay off as much as
possible, so he doesn't have to involve himself in the fuser,
right, that, you know, we've had so much problems within the last
several years with the whole economy coming down because of
the, you know, the leverage and so on. Anyway, so he wants to get
himself out of this.
He probably makes a decent amount, maybe, you know, $100,000, maybe
more, I don't know. But he came to visit me two years ago. And he
says, This is what happened.
In Ramadan.
I was really praying to Allah, that helped me really relieve me
of this debt. Right, relieved me of the steps. And it just occurred
to me one evening, one night, that you know, what, he came up with a
crazy idea. And believe me.
It was, I mean, when you hear it, he wrote an email to his manager
to his boss of the company. He says,
I know this sounds crazy or whatever. But, you know, this is
what my proposal is, can you pay me for my whole year salary
upfront, and then I will work for free for the next 12 months?
So if that's $100,000, for example, can you pay me $100,000
within the next week or two, because I've got a mortgage to pay
off. And then I'll work for free for the rest of the 12 months
fulfilling my contracts, which boss is going to do that for you?
Right, which boss is going to do that for your brother wouldn't do
that for you? Right? You know, so I don't know, you know, blah,
blah. So he writes his email, there's no harm in it. The worst
he can say is no, he's not going to throw him out of the company.
Right. So the next morning, he goes to work.
I don't even remember if you remember who he is, you know, what
his anticipation was. His boss meets him at the door. He says,
you know, gone see the finance department, we've got a proposal
fee. We thought there must be something maybe they give me you
know, 10,000, extra 20,000, whatever it goes to them, they
said, Look, this is what we're going to do for you. We're going
to give you your yearly salary upfront.
That's what he asked for. Right? He got it says dumbstruck already,
your whole year salary upfront, then, for the next 12 months,
we're gonna give you 50% of your salary for the next two years,
which will make up your next year's salary, so that you're not
without a salary for any of these months.
So full salary upfront for this year, the next year salary cut
distributed over the two years, over the 24 months.
This is something this is not out of, it is not our book, it's not
medical, believe me, this is what happened. This is what he told me
himself.
What I'm trying to say is that as Muslims, we call to a higher
power, we believe
we are we are occasional lists, which means that everything that
happens in this world, including a leaf that follows God is behind
it. God is not a mundane entity, a passive entity. You know, some
people believe that God, there is no God, then you've got those who
believe in God, they some of them believe that God created
everything, gave each thing its intrinsic ability to do what it
does. And then he's taken a back seat. Out of those some people
will believe that God can interfere and yet there are others
who believe that God cannot interfere. But as Muslims Wallah
yeah who do who have the will now what are you loving him? If you
just read the throne verse in the Quran, one of the most powerful
verses of the Quran tells you, Allah is in control of everything,
every movement that takes place, and it doesn't. It's not it
doesn't wear him out. It doesn't tie him for us. We would think,
well, let's delegate. We get more work done before Allah, He can do
countless and multiple things together one any one time, and he
can be permitting things to happen. That's just who God is.
And we must not make him any less than that. We must not make him
any less than that.
And Allah subhanho wa Taala says, God says in a Divine narration and
in the Vani RDB,
which means I am as the servant thinks of me, I am as the servant
thinks of me, which means that if you think God can do this for you
and your reliance is there, then it will happen. Now, that does
mean for higher things to be achieved, it does require a higher
set of reliance, which needs to be learned