Addressing the seminar on Labour Laws and Islamic Teaching, which was attended by Filipino Muslims, over the weekend, he said that Islam teaches all employers to pay the workers before their sweat dries up.
“Many employers, however, in Dubai and the Northern Emirates do not pay their workers even when their sweat has dried up,” he pointed out.
He said that Islam taught that among the Muslims, one is bankrupt if he comes out on day of prayer and slanders, assaults somebody and pockets the wealth of others. “Islam teaches that anyone who cheats is not one of us,” he said.
Maquiran stressed these points in the wake of many reports of Filipino workers being cheated by employers of their work time, contract and deprived of their salaries for months. He recalled that a Filipino maid came to his office for guidance after embracing Islam when her Syrian employers showed her mercy and kindness and taken her after she left her original sponsor.
“She was maltreated by the wife of her original sponsor, beaten and made to eat at the toilet all the time. One day, her male employer came back to his residence as he had forgotten something, and released her when he found out about her eating in the toilet. He was too ashamed of what his wife was doing and just released her to find another employer. She found a good Muslim Syrian employer who led her to Islam,” he stated.
“Her previous lady employer just deprived herself of a great reward. She oppressed her worker but, in this way, she oppressed herself, not the helper, for she did evil,” he explained.
