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		<title>Workers’ Safety, Health and Welfare in Islam: “Those who work for you are your brothers.”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 18:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Those who work for you are your brothers.  Allah has made them your assistants.” ——— Bukhari and Tirmidhi. The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: “There is reward for kindness to every living thing.” ——— Bukhari and Muslim. The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: “Be kind, for whenever kindness becomes part of something, it beautifies it. Whenever it is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theislamicworkplace.com&#038;blog=497224&#038;post=8582&#038;subd=makkah&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Bangladesh, corruption kills hundreds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transparency international Around the world, corruption hurts people. In many countries – like Bangladesh – it can even kill. More than 200 people died and more than 1,000 were injured following the collapse of a building that housed several garment factories in Savar, near the capital city of Dhaka. While families mourn loved ones lost, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theislamicworkplace.com&#038;blog=497224&#038;post=8578&#038;subd=makkah&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The horror of Bangladesh Sweatshops</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video of Fire in 2012, Nov 27 Following Saturday&#8217;s deadly garment factory fire in Bangladesh, some wonder if greed is being put before safety? Robin Stickley reports. Building Collapse of April 24, 2013 An eight storey block housing factories and a shopping center collapsed on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital on Wednesday, killing more [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theislamicworkplace.com&#038;blog=497224&#038;post=8575&#038;subd=makkah&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are your brand name clothes helping or hurting Bangladeshi Sweatshop Workers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doug Saunders, the Globe and Mail, USA Inside the garment factory, hundreds of poor women sewed the clothes that filled our shops. The factory’s owners had been warned that the place was hazardous; they ignored the warnings. When disaster struck, the death toll was horrendous. That describes the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theislamicworkplace.com&#038;blog=497224&#038;post=8571&#038;subd=makkah&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From our readers: Choosing Salaat over a Job Promotion</title>
		<link>http://theislamicworkplace.com/2013/04/24/from-our-readers-choosing-salaat-over-a-job-promotion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note from Rafik  Beekun: In response to a recent story about salaat on this blog (Whether to pray or not?), one of our readers from South Africa sent us this very inspiring post about a critical job related decision he had to make.  May Allah strenthen all of us to choose our deen over dunya [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theislamicworkplace.com&#038;blog=497224&#038;post=8567&#038;subd=makkah&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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