- BOOK ID
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- Frequently Used Terms
- Preface
- Introduction
- This World and the Hereafter
- You and God
- Your Time and Money
- Your Customers
- Your Employees
- Your Partner
- Your Business A: Five Types of Laws
- Your Business B: Haram Business and Trade
- The Non-Muslim Work Environment
- Works Cited
Islamic Business Ethics
BOOK ID
Author(s): Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi
Publisher(s): Al-Maarif Books
Category: Islamic Laws
Topic Tags: Business Ethics Miscellaneous information: Islamic Business Ethics
By Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi
Al-Maarif Books
Canada
First Edition 1426/2006
© All rights reserved
This publication may not be printed without
the written permission of the writer.
ISBN 0-920675-12-3
ISBN 978-0-92067 5-12-0
For comments and questions on this book, you may contact the author via
e-mail: muhammad57@ rogers.com
Telephone :(905) 707-0982
Fax: (905) 737-9781
Featured Category: Muslim Practices
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This treatise aims to help Muslim business people and professionals understand the Islamic perspective on life, this world, pursuit of material goods, and their responsibility towards society in general.
Frequently Used Terms
Halal: permitted, allowed, lawful, legal. The acts or things which are permitted and lawful. There is neither reward for performing it nor any punishment for neglecting it. For example: drinking tea.
Haram: forbidden, prohibited. lt is necessary to abstain from the acts which are haram. If someone performs a haram act, then he or she will be punished either by the Islamic court or in the hereafter or both. For example: stealing.
Jaiz: same as halal. See above.
Makruh: reprehensible, disliked, and discouraged. Acts which are disliked but not haram. If someone docs a makruh act, then he or she will not be punished for it; however, if people refrain from it, then they will be rewarded. For example: eating with left hand.
Mubah: same as halal, except that the term “mubah” is exclusively used for lawful things and properties, not for acts.
Mujtahid: a jurist. The term is used to describe a Shi'a Muslim religious scholar who
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