Why are some people like this?
Same thing with my neighbour. Both of them don't greet. When the wife gave birth, I only greeted her and on the day of naming I drove pass them, open gate and went out with my daily activities.
I have this neighbor that doesn’t greet
Him,his wife and his wife sister that lives with them,they never greets
And if you greet them,they hardly respond
So I stopped greeting any of them too and everyone lives their life quietly
We’ve been living together in this compound for about two years now
Now,my landlady informed me that the wife gave birth few days ago
I saw the husband that same day and he didn’t greet nor tell me anything
I have seen him a couple of times afterwards too but I haven’t seen the wife around yet
Now,my question is should I keep doing my thing and not greet him about the new baby and if they do naming in the compound next week,do I attend or ignore like I don’t know what’s happening
@Nig_Farmer I was a farm manager for years before opting out and I can relate this your experience.
I can't even invest my own money in the same thing I manage because I know what it takes to be a farm owner. Consultation and sales of veterinary products is what I do now. It is well
There are opportunities you use them for apart from asking them for money.
Examples:
1. A bank chairman bought 5 houses from me for his management staff
2. I have invited a number of them for my webinars to talk to my mentees (indirect benefit to the people)
3. A SAN needed one of them to chair the wedding of his daughter, he used me for introduction
4. One of them wrote the foreword to one of my books (added credibility)
5. Introductions and “calls”
6. Emotional support (one of them was on call with my family till 2am midnight settling issue 😊 - hopefully no cries here again today 😊)
7. Many of them see what we do here and don’t talk but call to privately advise or support. One saw my retweet here soliciting for financial support for a child with health issue and privately contacted me and paid the N10m hospital bill
These are examples of ways you use people older, richer and far more successful than you.
Directly asking for money is a turnoff for many of them.
Although some listen to investment pitches. But I have never pitched investment to any and they don’t come to my mind for that. I prefer to talk to peers in such matters.
A lot has changed. Just look at how beneficial a 3:46 minute clip can be. Those scholars of the past were deeply committed to delivering messages that could transform people’s lives for the better. Everyone in that gathering listened as though it might be the last reminder they would ever hear.
Plus the adabiyyah was entering my soul. Allahus samad
Bismillah
If you are a Muslim and this clip fails to stir any awareness in you about the Day of Qiyaamah, then you are either uninformed about it or heedless of its seriousness.
This is a cheap representation of how things will unfold on the Day of Qiyaamah. I call it “cheap” because only a few million people will see this humiliation, unlike the Day of Qiyaamah when every single soul will assemble and witness the humiliation.
The responses and reactions of Bwala give a glimpse of how people will deny their deeds, and how those deeds will then be shown to them.
Allah says:
وَوُضِعَ الْكِتَابُ فَتَرَى الْمُجْرِمِينَ مُشْفِقِينَ مِمَّا فِيهِ وَيَقُولُونَ يَا وَيْلَتَنَا مَالِ هَٰذَا الْكِتَابِ لَا يُغَادِرُ صَغِيرَةً وَلَا كَبِيرَةً إِلَّا أَحْصَاهَا
“And the record ˹of deeds˺ will be laid open, and you will see the wicked fearful of what is ˹written˺ in it. They will cry, ‘Woe to us! What kind of record is this that does not leave any sin, small or large, unlisted?’”
The way Bwala’s clips were played right after each denial resembles how Allah will present our deeds to us. Of course, humans would want to claim, “I didn’t do this; it was never me,” simply because those things were recorded in writing. Allah then says:
وَوَجَدُوا۟ مَا عَمِلُوا۟ حَاضِرًۭا ۗ وَلَا يَظْلِمُ رَبُّكَ أَحَدًۭا
“They will find whatever they did present before them, and your Lord will never wrong anyone.”
We will bring what is written in that book before them, present & evident, Live & direct, so that they will know they were never wronged.
Hmm
اللهم سلم!!!
@Temmy_omoileri I always have the belief that the husband to the pregnant women who passed through this situations are people that cannot make good decisions for themselves and have to rely on people's decisions for them.
More painful thing is the so called educated folks this happen to.
@AskMichaelTaiwo The hands of a giver will always be at the top and God knows how to replace whatever you give out genuinely in manifolds.
God will continue to elevate you Sir
@contentmints My questions are always,
where are the parents and family of those sisters?
Are they aware of their daughters in such situations?
What did they discussed with the brothers family prior to them agreeing to hand over their daughters
It saddens my heart.
@ChomskyAdam I do wonder what the parents of these sisters are doing to get their daughters out of this terrible situations because it saddens my heart reading and hearing such.
How can you as a parent be fully aware of your child being in distress and you do nothing?
@MahmoudTokura Even here in Nigeria, it was a Christian that called my attention that won't myself and other Muslim colleagues be going for juma'ah because it's past the time we usually leave to pray.
That guy is just something else.
May Allah grant us ease in our affairs