nyerekareem
abdur-rahman
:salam2:
a thought just came across my mind a few minutes ago about something that i had seen last month. i don't know why i've just begun to think about it but i am.
well i was in an organic grocery store named Whole Foods; and there was a young black american muslim brother dressed and bearded in proper sunnah working in the meat department as a butcher or cutter of the meats for the people. however there was a great deal of haraam meat that he was serving. the brother didn't look happy about it. but it bothered me greatly. i wanted to talk to the brother but he was very busy serving the customers. i wanted to ask him about the fact he was handling and serving haraam meats.
looking back, i feel that i should've spoken to a member of management about the situation. i feel as if i should've asked them if there was a different position for this young brother so he wouldn't have to compromise his religion. Whole Foods are huge like the Wal-Mart stores and have hundreds of employees on site. i wanted to explain to management that the brother was going against his religion in serving these products and that i was sure the could be able to reassign him to another job in the store.
i feel that i could've made a great impact, but i failed to do so. in america businesses are very hesitant to do things that would obstruct an employees religious obligations, like a woman wearing hijab or a jew requesting the sabbath off. i'm just hoping the next time i go there the brother has been placed in another department.
as a muslim i have always held a belief that whatever is haram for muslims is in reality also haram for non muslims. my conscience wouldn't let me sell ham sandwiches to people because i believe that Allah SWT doesn't want anyone eating them. i believe the person that kills the pig for food, distributes the meat, the man making the sandwich, the man selling the sandwich and the man buying and eating the sandwich is all haram.
i see many muslims owning liquor stores etc. and i ask myself about that, how can we contribute to help people enter the hellfire? what's ironic is that those muslims think they are safe because they aren't drinking the alcohol. they must really think Allah SWT is a fool!!! they will also be held accountable for their part. i will no longer remain with my mouth shut when i see muslims knowingly doing haram things like that. i have to say something because if non muslims see them doing unislamic things, they will believe these unislamic things are acceptable in islam. and in a post 9/11 world we muslims don't need any more bad images.
a thought just came across my mind a few minutes ago about something that i had seen last month. i don't know why i've just begun to think about it but i am.
well i was in an organic grocery store named Whole Foods; and there was a young black american muslim brother dressed and bearded in proper sunnah working in the meat department as a butcher or cutter of the meats for the people. however there was a great deal of haraam meat that he was serving. the brother didn't look happy about it. but it bothered me greatly. i wanted to talk to the brother but he was very busy serving the customers. i wanted to ask him about the fact he was handling and serving haraam meats.
looking back, i feel that i should've spoken to a member of management about the situation. i feel as if i should've asked them if there was a different position for this young brother so he wouldn't have to compromise his religion. Whole Foods are huge like the Wal-Mart stores and have hundreds of employees on site. i wanted to explain to management that the brother was going against his religion in serving these products and that i was sure the could be able to reassign him to another job in the store.
i feel that i could've made a great impact, but i failed to do so. in america businesses are very hesitant to do things that would obstruct an employees religious obligations, like a woman wearing hijab or a jew requesting the sabbath off. i'm just hoping the next time i go there the brother has been placed in another department.
as a muslim i have always held a belief that whatever is haram for muslims is in reality also haram for non muslims. my conscience wouldn't let me sell ham sandwiches to people because i believe that Allah SWT doesn't want anyone eating them. i believe the person that kills the pig for food, distributes the meat, the man making the sandwich, the man selling the sandwich and the man buying and eating the sandwich is all haram.
i see many muslims owning liquor stores etc. and i ask myself about that, how can we contribute to help people enter the hellfire? what's ironic is that those muslims think they are safe because they aren't drinking the alcohol. they must really think Allah SWT is a fool!!! they will also be held accountable for their part. i will no longer remain with my mouth shut when i see muslims knowingly doing haram things like that. i have to say something because if non muslims see them doing unislamic things, they will believe these unislamic things are acceptable in islam. and in a post 9/11 world we muslims don't need any more bad images.
:tti_sister: 
so i did for some time being, it's unnecessary to get into all the horrible stuff they told me and they made me accept.