Friend or fiend ?

There are times in your life when you feel like giving up on helping people. We are not suppose to expect people to return good deeds with good deeds or whatever rewards,suffice for us to do it sincerely and Godwilling the rewards will come in the here after, in this materialistic physical world the idea of helping people in need will /is/ in itself a reward because you get this nice feeling after helping people in need.

But my recent experience has been a sad one. about two years ago this so call friend of mine turn up at my office asking for assistance-he was jobless was in a financial mess and needed help. After a few round of discussion i offered him a position in my company that allowed him some degree of freedom( meaning he is not subjected to regular working hrs) ,a monthly income of about 5k which is earn through the jobs that i get by using his experience/CV. He could not get jobs on his own although he is very experienced,somehow working wth me changed that,jobs were pouring in thru my company some wth his CV being used. As clients dont pay immediately or regularly, i paid him monthly to ensure a steady monthly income. Some of the jobs in which he is to do on his own-he keep the fees. So what he got was monthly income for jobs using my companys name and what he got on his own but still under the banner of my business we take a minimum sum 10-20%.

By my calculationshe easily made about 150k and still had a fix salary of 5k per month,in total 60k pr year or 120k plus 150k thats 270k !! and yet after two years he tells people that i under pay him thus he left the company recently,taking away his jobs that was earned under the banner of the company. To add insult to injury he refuse to complete the work that he has agreed to do for us and demands that he be paid to complete those work although when he did not have a job nor brought money to the company he was still being paid.

How do we explain this guys behaviour ? One word-GREED ! Once he thought he can survive on his own he felt that the percentage that was given to the company was to high and he could earn more on his own. This was a guy who two years ago had lawyers and bankers chasing him all over town,he could nor even pay for his car and house ( both were sold or were taken over by the banks ) and now tells me to pay him more if he were to complete the work that he was contractually expected to. This is a guy who has earned 270k without contributing a single sen to the companys expenses and whose expenses was covered to the last sen in terms of mileage and hotel expenses etc.

Do i feel like killing him ? YES ! initially, then after prayers you tend to calm down and .... i wont stoop to his level, insyaAllah the truth always will prevail. I dont hold any grudges against him but im quite happy if we never cross path again in this life, in the next we will both be judged by the ultimate judge and will be rewarded or punish accordingly. Revenge and anger only erodes ones spritual self so i leave it to God...

God knows best...