Question:
Asalaamalaikum
I currently work within the education sector in UK as a Data Manager in a school.
When I visited Mawlana 2 yrs ago he recommended that I work with my hands and said to read a book which he wrote about handcrafts and work. I have asked a lot of the mureeds and cannot find this book anywhere. I am planning to visit in the second half of Ramadan to ask permission for Hajj. I would like to answer I have changed my job when Mawlana asks me, but I don’t know what to change to hence looking for this book. Last year Mawlana asked me and I replied in school, mawlana replied “Kabarstaan“. Therefore I think it is crucial for me to change asap, before presenting myself in front of Mawlana.
Answer:
`Alaykum as-Salam,
Try “Pure Hearts: 1997 & 1998 associations in Great Britain, Spain & the USA with a Sufi Master of our time”, published in London at Zero Productions in 1998.
You can at least take up a craft as a hobby before you can do it more seriously.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
