Bismillahirrahmaanirrahiim,
What is the thing that make you feel sad? someone asked me. What do you mean? When someone does not get what he/she deserves for. I do not understand what you are saying. I give you an example she goes on; someone works for an Islamic organization. She or he has been receiving his paycheck monthly. But there is one month she did not receive her paycheck. She asks her "boss", the answer is what do we owe you, and then another ridiculous question: "$500 would be enough for you"??
What do you think when your boss asking you "$500 would be enough for you", in fact you are supposed to get more than that, and you deserve it. You did your job very well, and you deserved for the money as the agreement. But you did not receive your money for more than two (2) months. If you work in any American institutions or any places in America, the employer will be sued by the workers for not paying their salaries.
Is it nice if your boss ask you: "how much do we owe you"? the boss suppose to know and should pay all the workers before their sweat dry (Ibnu Maajah). The employer should not ask the employee, and this should NOT HAVE HAPPENED.!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm really feeling very very very sympathy toward her. "Ya Allah please give her the best what she deserves for". All Muslims should understand how to fulfill their rights, either as a worker or a an employer.
What is the Rights of Workers?
The employer - labor relationship must be based on brotherhood and equality in human dignity. Prophet Muhammad SAW said: “Your servants are your brothers whom Allah the most High has placed under your authority. Therefore, a person who has a brother under his authority, should feed him out of that which he eats himself and should dress him with the same kind of clothes which he wears himself; he should not assign work to him which is beyond his capacity, and if you do so, then help him in his work.” (Bukhari).
Islam has preserved for the workman his honor and dignity when the Holy Prophet Muhammad SAW said: “The best gain is that of the workman who works to earn his living if he sticks to honesty.” (Ahmad). It ordained that workman's wages should be made clear before he commences his work, for the Prophet Muhammad SAW required the employer to make the workman's wage clear before he hires him, (Ahmad).
It confirmed the workman's right to his wages. The Holy Prophet Muhammad SAW said: “Allah, the Most High, says said which meaning of is translated as: There will be three persons against whom I will stand on the Day of Judgment:
- The person who makes a promise with an oath in My name and then breaks it.
- The person who sells a free man as a slave and appropriates his sale proceed.
- And the person who engages a workman and having taken full work from him fails to pay him his dues.” (Bukhari).
It required that he should be given his wages immediately after he completed his work. The Holy Prophet Muhammad SAW said: “Give a worker his wages before his sweat dries.” (Ibn Majah).
It also required employers not to give them work that is beyond their ability. If they give them such heavy work they should help them materially by increasing their wages, or physically by helping them with their work. The Holy Prophet peace and pleassings of allah be upon him, said which meaning of is translated as: “Do not give them work that is beyond their capacity and if you do so, then help them with their work.” (Bukhari).
O' servants, ALLAH SAW has set rights for every Muslims, yet for every one who lives on earth from the uppermost of what Islam came with, and from the greatest of what the Prophet Muhammad SAW sets the rights for the workers from the worker's rights towards the employers to give him enough salary...and to give him salary which is appropriate with its work.
It's not right and not fair that the employee performs a task, a big task, then at the end of the month he's given a raise that doesn’t suit the work he accomplishes. This is unfair, and if so, the employer has no right to tell the worker if you like it, take it and if you don't, leave. And it is not right that you postpone their salaries/wages for no reasons
There are many other people, these aren’t from Islam's morals and this isn’t from what the prophet Muhammad SAW came with, also it's not fair that the employee performs a simple task then at the end of the month He's given salaries, raises, and privileges that don’t suit the amount of work he accomplished. This is not fair and this teaches the worker to be lazy and loiterer we take refuge with ALLAH - almighty and most majesty , and also it causes hatred between employees and workers. He sees that this person is taking a high salary and his work doesn’t suit with that salary and the other sees he's aggrieved. So there will be a disruption in the country, we take refuge with ALLAH - almighty and most majesty ,and that's why there's neither disturbance nor security deflection in any country as long as there's an aggrieved person and if aggrieve is lifted from all servants from the worker and employer, there wouldn’t be any disruption in security we take refuge with ALLAH - almighty and most majesty.
What's the reason ? The reason is the existence of injustice between people we take refuge with ALLAH SWT and ALLAH SAW set security and safety, for those who work by the book(Quran) and Sunnah. If anyone of us didn’t work by the Qur'an and Sunna, then there's neither security, nor safety, nor faith.
"O' servants of ALLAH and this is the worker's right on the employer also from his right from the worker's right on the employer to prepare for him a descent residence to prepare a descent residence for this worker so he doesn’t tell him live anywhere you want and he doesn’t tell him I don't care about neither your residence, nor house, nor children my concern is the work I expect you live with your children or don't you live here or there the residence is descent or not I don't care then what do you care about ? Your concern is to sleep with felicity and your employees who work with you sincerely and truthfully are scattered here and there how could you live delighted and you didn’t give who works with you his least rights?
"O' servants this is the vicegerent of the prophet Muhammad SAW. he visits an old woman so how the employer? And the company's manager? And the institution's manager? you don't care about workers' residence or employees and you don't care about what they suffer from troublesor prices increase or conditions we take refuge with ALLAH - almighty and most majesty this is not your religion's manner that you're committed to towards ALLAH - almighty and most majesty .
And What is The Employers Rights??
As Islam required the employer to care for his employee's due rights, it required the employees, in return, to observe the employer's rights by carrying out their work in the best manner. The Holy Prophet Muhammad SAW said : “Allah likes, if one of you performs a piece of work, that he should do it well.” This means to say that a Muslim who is entrusted with a job should do it well as this is a means for gaining favor with his Almighty Lord.
Let's us pray to Allah SWT that we could fulfill our rights in the best manners possible. And we won't hear and see any unjustice in Muslim communities ANYMORE. Insha Allah I'll pray for her to be sabr, and to do her best always.
Wallahu A'lam
