{"id":733,"date":"2013-09-27T12:55:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T12:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/v2\/?p=733"},"modified":"2014-09-27T12:58:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T12:58:48","slug":"daaim-al-islam-ii-chapter-on-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/misbah\/inthefatemilibrary\/daaim-al-islam-ii-chapter-on-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Daaim al Islam II: Chapter on Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does one earn money and gain <em>sawaab<\/em> at the same time? Something no business school teaches! Syedna Qadi n No&#8217;man in the Chapter on Trade has laid down the laws of <em>halal<\/em> trade.<\/p>\n<p>Shariat promotes trade and business ventures. Rasulullah<sup>SA<\/sup>\u00a0proclaims that a businessman is no less than a warrior fighting for the cause of Islam, no less than a mumin who performs Haj and Umra. Maulana Ali<sup>AS<\/sup>\u00a0has said: I do not favor one who is idle in worldly matters, because he will be even more so in religious matters. He also says that one-tenth of <em>barakat<\/em> is in service, while nine-tenths is reserved for business.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The essence of healthy trade is <em>ijmaal fit talab:<\/em> A person&#8217;s wealth is predetermined, he shall not die before his wealth is dealt out to him. However a screen conceals that wealth. If he is patient he shall take it by <em>halal<\/em>, otherwise he will rip the curtain and take it by <em>haram<\/em>. Sins may diminish a person&#8217;s wealth. And sometimes when business is low, one must take solace in faith.<\/p>\n<p>Jurisprudence, which is schooling in shariat laws, must precede trading ventures: without knowledge one may fall victim to interest. One day Rasulullah<sup>SA<\/sup>\u00a0declared: businessmen are wicked and will burn in hell. On hearing this, people shut down their shops. The next day Rasulullah (SA) inquired why all the shops were closed. Rasulullah<sup>SA<\/sup>\u00a0repeated what he had said: businessmen are wicked except those who trade by shariat laws.<\/p>\n<p>In the chapters following, Syedna Qadi n No&#8217;man deals at length with <em>haram<\/em> products such as alcohol and pork, deception in business, laws of exchange, defective goods, and disputes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does one earn money and gain sawaab at the same time? Something no business school teaches! Syedna Qadi n No&#8217;man in the Chapter on Trade has laid down the laws of halal trade. Shariat promotes trade and business ventures. RasulullahSA\u00a0proclaims that a businessman is no less than a warrior fighting for the cause of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}