ابو مريم
· 2d
copy pasta the christians is sooo not from our deen 🤦🏻♂️
Every institution has an innate desire to grow. Rather than stay at a sustainable level, they expand whenever they have a surplus and resort to more and more pushy means when to match the previous year, or even their previous year + expectations of growth.
It takes genuine self control and backbone to resist this. You need to stand up to the congregation and tell them you won't have free coffee like the other masjids. You need to tell your imam that he needs to keep driving uber on the side even though the masjid has the money to pay him for the year. No one wants to be seen as stingy.
These forces exist even in small business, and it's much more difficult to control when you have a whole board instead of a single leader, and they control donated money.
They also see nothing wrong with being pushy. Giving to the masjid is good, so they see it as doing you a favor to get you to give away money that you otherwise wouldn't.