How to Navigate the Corporate Workplace as a Muslim
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
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The corporate world is well-known for high salaries, flashy suits and skyscrapers, but navigating the space as a Muslim can be tricky. So we've created a survival guide for some of the most awkward situations a Muslim might encounter.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - The corporate world
00:55 - Who are we?
01:24 - Problem 1: Shaking hands with non-mahram
03:47 - Problem 2: Drinking culture
05:52 - Problem 3: Praying at work
09:07 - Problem 4: Haram pensions
10:54 - Problem 5: Looking different
12:17 - Problem 6: Different values
14:38 - Problem 7: Using the toilet and ghusl
15:55 - The Number 1 Tip
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Jazakallah Khair for sharing these tips. I've been abaya wearing and moved up in ranks, but you do have to work at least 2x harder than everyone else to move up. However the greatest challenge has been the clash of values with senior colleagues - not anything controversial but things like being honest, thinking long term, putting the benefit of the public over personal career gains etc and expecting to show a blind eye to dodgy activities like fudging data, or not being honest with clients etc. This is what has been the greatest struggle and the barrier to getting promoted despite working SO hard and doing an excellent job in the role. I have found they are very happy when you sit beneath them and do as they are told and work like a machine, but the moment you challenge them - all hell breaks loose and you are then bullied really badly. This cycle is not just what Muslim women face; although it's worse for Muslims as Islamophobia plays a part too. It's like they can't comprehend or square in their head how a hijabi and abaya wearing super competent woman can be SO happy and confident to choose and love to be a Muslim.
what field are you talking about?
@@spawnnpwn4166 tbh it can happen in any field. But I've experienced it personally in tech, academia, and public sector.
This is excellent insight. Thanks ❤
Thanks for the update
I started my job in the corporate world this week and really, really needed to hear this. Thank you so much for the actionable steps. Especially loved that you drove home the point of never missing prayer. 💯
Glad it was helpful!
Not only avoid shaking hands, just don't do it. Even if you take your approach, you only now put Muslims in that position who refuse as being extreme, when it isn't. Its a tenant of our faith. You know the hadith of it being better for an iron rod going through your hand than to touch a non mahram woman...
My brother is making it harder for many of us who are more uncompromising in the corporate space. I fear for my level of imaan and taqwa if I cannot bear the prejudices of the non Muslims while relying on Allah.
What an absolutely thoughtful and amazing video full of useful advices!
THANK YOU; greetings from Berlin
Thanks for the practical video. I definitely think it's important to be upfront about your values early on ideally to set the tone. I also think it's important to not have to hide anything and live a 'double life' for various reasons; better to be open and face the consequences rather then pretend.
I don't think the issues like drinking, prayer or even hand-shakes are that big; they are a little awkward, but it's manageable. What's harder imo its the values part; I think it's challenging to have good relations with others if they think your views are bigoted or something like that.
I think it's fine to work in corporate when you have to for money or for experience or whatever, but I don't know about the long run. I can't see you rising to the top without facing some serious issues or having to compromise. it seems to me that we'd setup our own businesses or environments where we can be comfortable. I don't know if that's too idealistic, but I think that would be optimal. Would probably be better for our communities as well.
you are not seriously telling people to pray in the disabled toilet, come one man
I couldn't pray in a toilet. I just couldn't.
I think brother was trying to emphasise the LAST RESORT not to not to miss Salah. The photo shown was a larger Disabled Toilet than the usual ones I’ve been in. Best to seek a job very near a Mosque. Alhamdulilah we are spoilt in London! You can go into nearby University Islamic Student Union. I remember back in 2000, I used to go to LSE, in Holborn and was able to make some local friends from other organisations. Back then it was a privilege…
Well i see a lot of negative comments here - but what i like about the video is the intent to start having conversation to share ideas in order to live up to islamic values at the best possible manner. He says “do not leave salah no matter what” is better than leaving it just because situations did not allow. Lets continue to speak about this and together we may find the best list of ideas that we could use to help tackle the mentioned situation
Great work
AsSalamAalaikum. Thank you brother for the video. Very useful ❤ جَزَاكَ ٱللَّٰهُ خَيْرًا
Great tips bro, thank you. Not so sure about scooping up the flush water from the toilet rim though 😂
😂 it's clean though
@@IFGuruscientifically proven, that it is not. Hence why it is recommended to close the lid when you flush so all forms of faeces and urine don’t spray across the room.
Absolutely brilliant tips
Glad it was helpful!
Good tip about joining the prayers rather than missing them. There's an authentic hadith about the permissibility of joining Dhuhr+Asr, Maghrib+Isha in the absence of rain or travel. So you can join the two daytime prayers and the two nighttime prayers but you cannot join the daytime + nighttime prayers
Most importantly, there is NO concession for missing the prayer so you can't join Asr+Maghrib+Isha for example.
Let's remember that Tayammum (dry ablution) was legislated to avoid missing the prayer.
And if you think you're likely to miss a prayer (e.g., Asr) due to work/travel, just join it earlier with dhuhr and you know that box is ticked 😊
safer to stick to the predominant ruling of the madhab you follow, and ask scholar of piety. Avoid dyi fiqh if you are not a mujtahid.
Amazing video
Thanks!
The istinja trick is absolutely awesome! Please note the flush water coming out from the toilet satisfies the Fiqh condition of "Pure Water". It is in fact Tahoor.. colourless, odourless and tasteless (i haven't tried to drink it 😉)
at most it is for extreme emergencies. rather use a waterbotle from the tap...
14:44 You can do istijmar instead of istinjaa, if there is no water available
Nice video. Just I think you shouldn't show images of women without hijab and even with hijab. We have to lower our gaze
MashaAllah with this level of piety, I doubt this video is targeted to you.
@@heshamthearabActually I'm just a layman. But please, can you explain me why this video is not targeted to me ?
@@heshamthearab this is basic and easy thing to avoid for an 'islamic' channel.
The face pictures can be blurred - highly recommend that. Fellow sister
First impression matters - if you can say No to the the very first Xmas Do, as you don’t celebrate with alcohol and as for Sisters - I always found they understood when I said I need to stay home in the evening for caring parents, siblings, your husband (yes, I meant that), and children of course. Maybe, join the team spirit from Zoom. Muslim Professional Sisters should be Family Priority First - we should accept only part-time hours, but not leave the workforce altogether - nowadays hybrid working for the corporate world should be first choice.
Shower room works too lol 😅
Good point!
Yes, I've had to do shower room too 🙈
Do you have evidence that by UK law they have to provide a place to pray.
Or just have a fat notebooks n items in hands so they won't dare ask for handshake
Join a muslim company 🤝
Hold on...the 2nd flush water is still unclean to me...
Yeah to me too! I’m shocked he advised that… never ever do that!
This is very defeatist brother. If you have to compromise this much to do your job and in the place you live then try to find another place to work or move all together. I doubt you would have any of these problems in some muslim majority country. Ideally in a place like the UK you would only deal B2B in trade with non muslims in a social context that you would have far more leverage. If you are employed then ultimately the employer can tell you do anything within reason.
As salamualeikum brother, I know you mean well, but this is absolutely wrong and I sincerely advise you to remove this content before the damage increases InshaAllah. It is not permissible to shake non-mahrams hands and it is definitely impermissible to bow down to them as an alternative because this is shirk billahi azza wa jal. This is basic knowledge akhi. Please delete this content InshaAllah. May Allah guide us and protect us all.
What about halal food ? Don't you have this issue in the UK (question from France)?
I take my own lunch box
in corporate world theres not too much halal food so i just eat vegetarian or fish
Dude what an earth? How is the water in the toilet clean? That is disgusting. Even if you flush 10 times I would never take water from there…. Surely that is unhygienic..
It is HARAM to pray in bathrooms!!!
It was narrated from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) that it is haraam to pray in certain places, including bathrooms. It is not permissible to pray in them. It was narrated in a saheeh report from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) that he said: “All the earth is a mosque except for graveyards and bathrooms.” (Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, al-Salaah, 291; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh Sunan al-Tirmidhi, 262). “Bathroom” refers to every place that is used for the purpose of relieving oneself; it is not permissible to pray in any such place. This room on the edge of which there is a toilet is not considered to be a bathroom so long as there is a barrier between it and the bathroom, with a wall and door etc. In this case prayer in that room is valid, because the prohibition on praying in bathrooms is because they are usually naajis (impure), and this room is not like that. And Allah knows best.
Thumbnail is haram.
Horrible advise! Please stop your foray into islamic guidance outside of finances.
Respect to everythinv else you've done mashallah. Please step away from this new domain, with all due respect it doesnt look like it could become any of your fortes. Love and respect for eeverything else and keep up your good financial work
I find it very Problematic that you put on your own opinion in things like “fatwah”, fatwah is a big deal and even scholars do it after studying the subject and with islamic evidence so you as a regular Muslim saying we can pray in RESTROOMS because you feel its clean is outrageous…feelings have nothing to to with fatwah
Please don't spread Fitnah. It's not permissible to shake hands with the opposite gender.
I didn’t realise poor brothers had this issue - good tips for this aspect for sharing. You can always say ‘I don’t handshake because of COVID” as a sister it’s worked for me. LOL
Oh no, despite major scholars saying otherwise, I'll take the word of some next man on RUclips comments.
Please educate yourself on how fiqh works, and how it allows scholars to come to different conclusions, both of which being valid within the religion.
Never ever ever bow to someone
Why propagate muslim women to go to the corporate world? You should promoting then the opposite dont go to the corporate world.
As a sincere well wisher for this organisation I would advise you to not use clips of men and uncovered women hugging. You can easily drive your point home without committing these very obvious violations of Islamic rulings.
simple solution: Avoid the corporate world. Business is best.
I got an idea - leave Islam
Or leave the UK! Won't be much alcohol around corporate tables in parts of Malaysia!
r u ex-muslim?