Who will be a salesman for Allaah?
Assalamoalaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu,When someone works as a salesman, he knows that he will either get paid on an hourly basis or he will get commission according to how much he sells. When someone gets paid on an hourly basis, they might end up selling very many products compared to the money they are making on the hourly basis. Because they have no contract of commission, they would not be able to get as much as is the worth of their work. On the other hand, who works on commission, might work the whole day trying to make customers and convince people to trust them on their word, but alas, at the end, they may end up with a very few or no customers and all the time spent on convincing is wasted. The above is generally the deal people work as salesmen or saleswomen whatever it may be.
How about the following offer:
You work on convincing the people by gaining their trust and increasing their knowledge but not by oppressing them or forcing them. You present to them the truth with sincerity and your intentions only to please your Boss and only Him. Even if someday, you are unable to go to work but have the intention and miss your work, you are paid let alone, when you do actually take action. When you take action, the commission does not depend upon how many products you sell, rather, it depends on what your intention is (pleasing your Boss in this case alone) and how hard you try (being gentle and soft with the speech of truth rather than forcing your views upon others). So if you made 'zero' customers but had the true intention and tried hard, you get paid. PLUS,, it is not on an hourly basis, but an endless reward which helps you not only here but also when you will be brought to answer to your Boss, you will have with you, the hard work you did and the pure intention that you had to please your Boss. Your Boss will be so happy with you that even if you made no customers whatsoever after working for such a long time, you will still get promoted and will be given more and more facilities.
How does the above deal sound? A friend of mine was describing to me how some very good brothers at the college talk to nonmuslims or those Muslim brothers who are not practising. She described the dawah of that brother in the following words, which dragged me to my blog and share it with everyone: "When they talk to these people, it looks like they are the salesmen of Allaah". SubhanAllaah. Had someone commented for me in such a way, I would have passed out because of the extreme happiness.
The responsibility to do dawah falls upon all of us as we know, but how many are truly 'salesmen of Allaah'? By this, I, by no means, refer to Islam, my religion, as a product, but a package, that is full of 'advantages' and only advantages. Islam is the way of life. But how many of us truly live Islam? Sleep Islam? Drink/Eat Islam? Spread Islam?
Have you seen how the salesmen worry about only presenting the good even if there is some bad in what they are representing? We don't even need to worry about that. Simply, because there are no side effects to the package we are offering.
Let us all try and become 'salesmen of Allaah' but remember,, your 'intention' and enthusiasm precede everything else that comes up later.
posted by Allah's Slave @ 6:38 PM
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