{"id":1999,"date":"2019-06-30T16:37:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T08:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2019-08-18T12:48:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T04:48:50","slug":"a-contractor-asking-for-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/a-contractor-asking-for-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"A contractor asking for donation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I was waiting for &#8216;Asr prayer (as I wrote this).\u00a0 Then suddenly, I heard somebody knocking on my door.\u00a0 I asked who he was.\u00a0 He said that he is from Maahad Tahfiz.\u00a0 \u00a0I remember an ustaz who has Tahfiz centre nearby my place who never did anything like this before.\u00a0 I was skeptical.\u00a0 \u00a0 I am in dilemma.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want to lose any chance of <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/hadith-about-giving-sadaqah\/\">giving sadaqah<\/a> and at the same time, I don&#8217;t want to give my money to a conman.\u00a0 [Note: He came again on<a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/again\/\"> 18 August 2019<\/a>).\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>What should I do?\u00a0<\/strong> As I was typing this, one of my colleagues messaged us using Whatsapp to let us know about this.\u00a0 Alhamdulillah she has similar stance as I am.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">If the person tries to sell some product, I don&#8217;t mind buying anything from the person even though I might not in need of the things that he sells.\u00a0 This is based on what my late mom taught me.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t refuse to buy anything from a seller who comes to your house especially if you see he\/she carries the things on his\/her own.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">My mom was a regular customer of this lady who sells medicated oils and whatsnot.\u00a0 The lady would never fail to come to my house to sell medicated oils, talcum powder, fish cracker and such.\u00a0 After she passed away, the medicated oils and talcum power are still there on top of her make-up cabinet\/drawer.\u00a0 A remembrance of my late mother and her kindness.\u00a0 Al-fatihah.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was waiting for &#8216;Asr prayer (as I wrote this).\u00a0 Then suddenly, I heard somebody knocking on my door.\u00a0 I asked who he was.\u00a0 He said that he is from Maahad Tahfiz.\u00a0 \u00a0I remember an ustaz who has Tahfiz centre nearby my place who never did anything like this before.\u00a0 I was skeptical.\u00a0 \u00a0 I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/a-contractor-asking-for-donation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A contractor asking for donation?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-personal","category-random-rambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3846,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions\/3846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}