Question:

Kind Attn: Sheikh Muhammad  Hisham Kabbani

Respected Sir

Assalamu alaikum.

Hope this mail finds you and family in best of health and spirit by the grace of Allah.

First of all, I would wish to seek few minutes of your precious quality time to go through this e-mail in depth. I know you are a very busy dignitary and will not have time for such lengthy notes, my apologies. I have decided to write this plea after lot of contemplation and out of sheer desperation and nerve wracking compulsion, could never think of appropriateness, hence you may find it bit odd, my apologies again.

I am an Indian Muslim, currently unemployed and temporarily based in the ME on visit visa for job searching purpose, I have over 16 years of work experience in Healthcare/Pharma/Admin sector in the Middle East,I have worked for many years as Medical Office/ Clinic/Pharmacy in-charge as well as healthcare claims processing officer, healthcare services marketing & sales officer in Dubai and Saudi Arabia during my tenure and have a natural flair towards the sector with much needed compassion, empathy and indeed perseverance.  But, I am tired of sending job applications to various employers here in the Middle East and everywhere possible, and am registered with innumerable job portals, but none met with any result so far.  The world seems to have become so soulless and madly hyper-professional and appears eclipsed by inhuman technicalities.

I don’t know whether it is appropriate to approach you in this peculiar unprofessional way, but I had no other way, am totally disheartened by the unfortunate indifference I have been confronting from those hundreds of employers, and fraternal Muslim associations the world over, whom I had approached to seek a career. I have contacted many prestigious healthcare groups in  UK, US, Malaysia, Singapore and almost all over the world for a job, though all of them have suitable vacancies that perfectly suits my hard earned experience, expertise and flair, unfortunately none could extend a helping hand. I believe its because  I am a less privileged/less equipped foreigner without any local support. Though I duly respect their discretion, deeply pained by this disheartening situation and the sad inconsiderate response receiving from every corners. I am really shocked by realizing this depth of compassion deficit prevailing among the Ummah.

If your time permits, let me quote another startling experience I have encountered recently, I came across a job posting few months ago, as I am so desperate for a job I applied to it immediately, later I found out that the firm is run by a Evangelist group, some days later, a pastor replied to me by stating their recruitment policy, they only recruit people who are followers or are willing to follow their faith and culture. In other words, they are ready to offer me a job if I am ready to convert to their faith! But my self esteem and Imaan/cultural dignity never allowed me even to reply him, I have even immediately deleted his contact from my record. Though I could salvage my pride there in front of the pastor, our own Ummah is defeating me everyday by inconsiderately neglecting my desperate plea for a job.

These bitter empirical experiences forced me to share my grievances with you and to explore the possibility of a noble fraternal help in regards to my search for a halal means of subsistence, which as we all know is also an Ibada. I don’t know what more to say than repeat this , I request your high Islamic conscience and Wisdom, and seek your kind assistance for a suitable non-clinical healthcare/pharma/hospice/admin support career, or any other suitable career, anywhere in the world, using your goodwill, contacts, friends/professional/community circles, where I can peacefully make a living and stay with my family. My family is staying in a rented house back home in India, I was not able to build a own home so far, if I don’t pay the rent and utilities my family will be in trouble, I also have school going children, I have been working all these years detached with them, I am not only tired financially, but emotionally also. I also know this is a testing time from Allah, but Sir as a family man, how can, and how far I can withstand such a helpless, distraught situation.

Since being such a renowned/widely admired Scholar and Spiritual leader admired by millions, I am sure you will have lot of fraternal ties and community bonds across the world, I humbly plead you to kindly use some of those for this life saving cause, It is not just a job I am seeking the help for, but for a means of very survival. I know that whatever I say, I am a foreigner for you, but trust Ummah has no such boundaries.
I am tired of hearing evasive inhuman technical reasons and not a soulful help, completely drained and exhausted, but I still have hope and faith in exceptional compassionate fraternal dignitaries like you and Ummah/Humanity. More than anything, this, literally is an SOS from a sinking human being. My eyes blurring, fingers burning can’t type anything more…I leave the rest to your High Islamic Conscience and virtues, with prayers. I can’t bear a negative response from such an highly respected influential dignitary, hence prayfully awaiting a life saving breakthrough.

If it is unable for you to help me find a job kindly help me through any other means, either way please do not let me down completely in this dire do or die situation, I am sending this ultimate plea as a last resort, I do not have any other hopes left with this grossly merciless, madly materialistic compassion less world.I know it is easy for a dignitary like you to ignore such an email plea amidst the flood of other routine correspondances, and also at a time when fraudulent/ scam mails also circulating every corner, but Sir, the very life of a human being is at stake here in this, being an Islamic scholar and Spiritual leader with high wisdom and virtues I am sure you can well distinguish good and bad.
Thank you for your valuable time and kind attention.
May Allah reward all your noble deeds.

Respectfully,
With Prayers
[private]

Answer:

Dear [private],

wa `alaykum salam,

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani says that you must know that these rejections are only a test and checkiing to see your persistence. He says that Allah likes to see the ilha in du`a, constant crying and petitioning your Lord and turning to Him as the Source of all good without stopping.

Keep applying and Mawlana Shaykh Hisham is praying for your success. Recite Allahuma akfinee bi halalik `an haramik wa ‘ghninee bi fadlika `amman siwak 10x a day.

Taher Siddiqui