A Response to Those Who Claim Injustice on the Ground of the Scarcity of Jobs
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Question:
Another questioner says: What is your response to one who claims to be wronged, citing the scarcity of jobs and the donation of money to other countries?
Answer:
My brother, seeking a livelihood is not limited to jobs. There are many avenues for earning a livelihood. If you do not get a job, seek your livelihood in other ways, through buying and selling, or through a trade, or working for merchants, or in stores, or for companies.
Until recently, people worked and practiced trades; they worked for business owners for wages. Why do you limit yourself to a job? If you get one, that is fine and good. If you do not get one, seek your livelihood in other ways.[At-Talaq 65:2-3] If you counted the employees and the non-employees, what proportion of the society do you find to be employees? And if you look at the wealthy, you will find that they are not employees. The great wealthy are not employees. So the matter is not limited to jobs. Seeking a livelihood is broad, praise be to Allah. Yes.
Another questioner says: What is your response to one who claims to be wronged, citing the scarcity of jobs and the donation of money to other countries?
Answer:
My brother, seeking a livelihood is not limited to jobs. There are many avenues for earning a livelihood. If you do not get a job, seek your livelihood in other ways, through buying and selling, or through a trade, or working for merchants, or in stores, or for companies.
Until recently, people worked and practiced trades; they worked for business owners for wages. Why do you limit yourself to a job? If you get one, that is fine and good. If you do not get one, seek your livelihood in other ways.
And whoever fears Allah - He will make for him a way out (3) And will provide for him from where he does not expect. And whoever relies upon Allah - then He is sufficient for him
وَمَن يَتَّقِ اللَّهَ يَجْعَل لَّهُ مَخْرَجًا وَيَرْزُقْهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَحْتَسِبُ وَمَن يَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى اللَّهِ فَهُوَ حَسْبُهُ
Source
75-لقاءات مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 11- — archive.org (56:02)
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