Assalamu’alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim
1. Introduction
Friends beloved by Allah,
When an educational institution or community lacks permanent teaching staff, the wheel of nurturing the next generation often stalls. Scientifically, in contemporary sociology and community-based management, the most effective solution to formal HR limitations is to build a knowledge sharing movement, or the charity of expertise. Around us, there are actually many professionals—farm practitioners, linguists, entrepreneurs, and technicians—who possess deep knowledge. When we invite and touch the hearts of these educated people to spare a little of their time to share knowledge in the community, we are activating extraordinary social capital to cover the shortage of teachers. Islam views expertise and knowledge as a trust that must flow. Inviting experts to come down to the community is not merely asking for help; it is opening a door for them to purify their intellectual wealth through zakat of knowledge.
Allah Subḥānahu wa Ta‘ālā says about the duty to call one another to goodness and to harness the potential of faith for mutual salvation:
وَلْتَكُن مِّنكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى ٱلْخَيْرِ وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِٱلْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ ٱلْمُنكَرِ وَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْمُفْلِحُونَ
“And let there be among you a group who call to goodness, enjoin what is right, and forbid what is wrong. They are the ones who are successful.” (QS. Āli ‘Imrān: 104)
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ also reminded us that every limb and skill Allah grants a person has its own daily obligation of charity, and helping others with one’s expertise is a real form of charity:
تُعِينُ الرَّجُلَ فِي دَابَّتِهِ فَتَحْمِلُهُ عَلَيْهَا أَوْ تَرْفَعُ لَهُ عَلَيْهَا مَتَاعَهُ صَدَقَةٌ
“…You help a man with his mount, either helping him onto it or lifting his belongings onto it for him—that is charity.” (HR. Bukhari)
2. Lessons and Moral Message
Let us picture an emergency meeting hall in a village struggling to rise from an economic trial. There, a group of school dropouts sit in a row with empty stares. They want to work, they want to farm or start a business, but not a single teacher at the local school has the practical expertise to teach them. The atmosphere feels deadlocked and full of despair; their future looks gray. But the scene turns moving one afternoon when a senior agricultural expert or a successful business practitioner from the city deliberately comes and spends his weekend. He rolls up his sleeves, gets down to the ground, sits in a circle with the young men, and says gently, “My children, let’s learn how to cultivate this limited land to produce a premium commodity.” Seeing an expert willing to touch dirty soil to teach them without a cent of payment, tears of emotion fall from the parents watching from the corner of the room. Hope that had died now reignites. The presence of that volunteer expert has saved an entire generation from collapse.
Friends, the analogy is like a great machine missing its main parts or gears to drive the wheels of civilization. If the machine relies only on one or two small, exhausted gears spinning, it will jam and break down. Yet in the warehouses around us, top-quality steel gears are actually lying idle—namely, experts who are busy with their own worlds. Our task as community mobilizers is to take those steel gears, clean them, and install them into the “machine” of the ummah’s struggle. Someone who shares his expertise for two hours a week will not ruin his own work, but those two hours, when donated to the community, can move the futures of hundreds who need direction in life.
There is a humorous story in a village about a computer-engineering graduate who had just returned home. Because the village madrasah lacked vocational teachers, the ustadz immediately approached the young man and invited him, “Son, please help teach our students how to type and use basic computers on the madrasah porch.” The young man was reluctant at first and made excuses: “Oh Ustadz, I’m busy monitoring global network servers from my phone—my time is very expensive.” The ustadz smiled and said, “Young man, your global server won’t protest if you leave it for two hours. But if the students here are tech-illiterate, later when they become preachers they’ll think a ‘computer mouse’ is an actual dried mouse with a cable attached! Do you want to bear that historical sin?” The young man burst out laughing in embarrassment, then immediately brought his laptop to teach. The wisdom is profound: sometimes the experts around us just need to be approached kindly and invited wisely so they realize their knowledge is being awaited by the land where they were born.
3. Conclusion and Closing
Brothers and sisters, the limitation of formal Human Resources in our institutions is no reason to stop the steps of education. The smart solution is to open spaces for collaboration and invite local experts to step in and share knowledge in the community. Let us knock on the hearts of practitioners, academics, and professionals around us. Remind them that blessed knowledge is knowledge that is practiced and taught to revive the hearts of others. When all elements of expertise are willing to donate a little of their time, HR limitations will vanish, replaced by the beauty of civilizational mutual cooperation. Let us become bridges that connect experts with souls thirsty for knowledge.
والله أعلم بالصواب
الحمد لله رب العالمين
Wassalamu’alaikum Warahmaullahi Wabarakatuh.
ِAbu Sultan Al-Qadrie
