brothers and sisters,
I have a friend at the office who has always been a victim of bully. Sometimes I don't know where he gets his patience. He is very quiet. We work in a very small company. Sometimes I'm not sure if bully is the right word to use. It's more of an "office politic" issues. Whoever gets more attention from the boss will be pushed around pretty badly up to the point until that person would want to quit the job. Ive witness this many a times. Its like one gone, next target will be selected :P
Recently my friend was given a raise in payment due to his performance. guess people at work wasn't very happy about it they started to look for his flaws if they couldn't find one they will try and sabotage his work and make him look bad in front of the boss. When our boss is not around they would make him do things that wasn't even written in his job DESCRIPTION! I would think that is DESPICABLE! If he refuses they will try find ways to get back to him.
One time I saw one of those "idiot" altered his work when he was not around and accused him of making those mistakes to the boss. He gets all the lectured and scolding yet he doesn't say a thing about others and kept it to himself. I felt horrible for him. Masya'Allah sometimes I envy his patience. If I was at his shoe I would probably fight back and go berserk. I tried to tell the boss but 1 voice against many, of course the large majority always wins.
I felt horrible for him. Sometimes I can feel that I am more angry than he is and sometimes I feel like standing up for him and yelled at those cold hearted bugger but I'm afraid if I do such thing he will think that I do not think highly of him as a man.
I think I am more angry and ashamed that these things are committed by our fellow Muslim friends
It sadden me sometimes. These are also people who always lectured others about the Islamic right yet they themselves neglected it. There were time where the guys would skip prayers and when I reminded them they would say things like "later" or tell me to mind my own business, while the ladies would gather in one place(sometimes together with the guys) passing judgments of other people's life and spread fault rumors without feeling a slightest bit of guilt. Astaghfirullahalazim.
It's embarrassing brothers and sisters...sometimes I would tell them to move far away so that I wouldn't have to listen to their gossips. I am contemplating of getting a headphone soon so whenever they speak bad of others I can just listen to something beneficial and blocked those bad vibes away from my hearing.
Though I am often mocked for "trying to be nice" as they call it, I am not bothered by it one bit :P and sincerely speaking I can feel that I will probably soon be on their "hate list" as I refuses to join their "clique". I think I'm more afraid of being hated by god than them. Though I admit I have a bad habit of being short tempered when someone gets on my nerve. May Allah grant me strength and patient.
There are times when I became angry, deep down in my heart I wish I could pray bad things for them but I know its not permissible to do that in Islam. We are taught to pray good things instead of bad for others.
Which brings me to my question. Is there a dua(other than ayatul kursi) that can protect us from people like these? Its the least I can do to help I guess and also protect myself in the future.
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