No offence meant, I just have a strange sense of humor. I have benefited tremendously from this website, as I am sure have many others; yes you don’t get paid, but Inshallah lots of wealth waiting for you on the other side.

So I consider myself a ‘realist’ lol… I agree with you, we should only trust in Allah. Being realistic means NOT having great expectation of human beings, but only of Allah. And we are always satisfied with his decree, Alhamdolillah, but that is NOT an excuse for those who don’t come up to the expected standard.

In a sense, it all boils down to expectations. And I am not just talking about the people who have bad experiences. I’m also talking about the people who act wrongfully, they seem to have the expectation that Allah will not hold them to account for how they treat their brothers and sisters in Islam.

Maybe the latter group have no idea of the reckoning on the Day of Judgment, when believing men and women who might otherwise enter Jannat, will find their good deeds parceled out to those they wronged! May Allah protect us from that fate. And should good deeds not suffice to right the wrongs, to find that one is encumbered with the wrongs of others! And thus to be cast into the fire whose fuel is men and stones… Na’udhobillahi min shururi an fusina wa min sayyiaatinaa!

And which expectations are the best expectations? The idealists’? The realists’? No, those of the ones who place their trust in Allah. What Allah has given them in this life, they are certain that no one can take it from them except by the Decree of Allah. And what they cannot attain in this life, they are certain that no one could have given it to them except by the Decree of Allah. And they are satisfied with His Decree, alhamdolillah alaa kulli haal.

One aspect I’d like to add, especially in regards to contract work (design or otherwise) is that there’s also a certain level of non-financial harms that can come from working with Islamic organizations.

Some people, by simple virtue of paying you for something they consider “should” be free, will automatically raise their expectations to unrealistic levels. Then, if those expectations are not met — EVEN THOUGH the contract is fulfilled — they can still ruin a person’s reputation in the community.

I have heard stories of people who did projects, got paid, the contract was fulfilled on both sides, but still the organization will bad mouth the person saying “he took so much money from us, and now he won’t even x,y,z”

So this is another unfortunate circumstance have to be aware of – every time you do a project for an Islamic organization, not only do you have to watch out for unprofessionalism, but character assassination as well.

Lol, the irony of announcing deleting an entire website on a post about unprofessionalism! Just kidding, of course I deeply respect the work of all the brothers and sisters on this site!

We didn’t delete your comments. The entire suhaibwebb.com website accidentally got deleted a few hours ago so we had to restore a backup. The backup was from last night so we lost the recent comments! We are extremely sorry about that.