Reclaiming moral responsibility in commerce and work
“Don’t cheat God.”
These words rang in my ears as I recently sat in a class with the eminent Shaikh Muhammad Akram Nadwi, where we studied the hadith in the Book of Tricks (Legal Stratagems) in Sahih Al-Bukhari, and helped me sum up what I wish to convey in this article.
In reality, the words business and duty aren’t juxtaposed in our minds. Commerce and business, as we know them today, are mostly about opportunity, profit and arbitrage, and rarely, if ever, about duty.
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Sajjad Chowdhry