Greeting in the name of peace.
Today’s economic factor is as real as it gets. Struggle! Struggle! Struggle! The people ask, what can I do to get ahead financially? My current job does not pay enough!! Life is very frustrating! Where is Allah (God) when I need him the most? Ans: Allah (God) has always been there; it is Satan’s veil of deception that makes it appear that God has just suddenly decided to abandoned you!! Now, do not get me wrong, Allah (God) can and does sometimes be silent on a person’s situation in a crisis! But he always returns to you with greater love! In today’s financial struggles to often get ahead one must look at being an entrepreneur (small business owner), if possible. To understand this line of making a living one must have some knowledge of macro and microeconomics. Macroeconomics deals with large scale economic factors interest rates and national product activity. Microeconomics deals with single factors and the effects of individual decisions.
I do not want to get into the high-level college academics of business, I am going to explain entrepreneurship in layman terms with spiritual significance, this will be for any type or kind of business in general.
You start by building your ship (boat) by knowing what materials you will need to build it. From there you will need to go to the assembling process, after that you will look everything over once it is put together and give it a test navigation to see if it floats and glides across the water. If it does so, then you are ready to add a little more piece of perfection to it to secure it more solidly for sturdiness.
Now, let's push the ship a little faster to see if it holds together on top of the water without sinking! If all goes well the ship will make it to its destination without fail. Now you can call yourself an entrepreneur! A successful entrepreneur that is!
Of course, there will always be touch up factors that you will have to do to make sure all is well, but you can proudly say that you have succeeded as a businessman/woman.
Now, let's look at entrepreneurship from a more religious or spiritual perspective. In the Judeo-Christian faith, Jesus’ disciples were fishermen, and most were expert fishermen, but still when they all got caught up with their net cast on the wrong side of the boat, Jesus had to tell them to bring their net up out of the water and cast it on the right side of the boat where the fish were flowing more abundantly!
You see, on the left side of the boat, which was the wrong side, no fish were present. Why was that? As Jesus showed them (Christ’s disciples), even though they were expert fishermen, they will still prone to making errors in their decisions. So, Allah (God), through Christ makes the correction for them and from there, success followed.
Now, let's look at what the beloved prophet of Islam Has Said about entrepreneurship. The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was asked which was the best kind of work, he replied, “That for which a man works with his hands, and honest trading. Here the Holy Prophet Muhammad is stressing entrepreneurship!! Work for self and do for self!
Now, everyone is not called to be an entrepreneur, but a lot of people can become good businessmen and women. So, look at and within yourselves to see if you are called to be an entrepreneur. If so, then take the leap and do so!
On last thing, do not announce out loud to any and everyone what kind of business ideas and plans you have for yourself, just do it and all will see you stride! May Allah (God) bless you and keep down your stress, and don’t get into any mess!! (spiritual smile).
Salaam (peace),
Master Warren Muen
- O ye who believe! eat not up your property among yourselves in vanities: but let there be amongst you traffic and trade by mutual good-will: nor kill (or destroy) yourselves: for verily God hath been to you Most Merciful.
THE HOLY QUR'AN, Surah 4:29. An-Nisaa, Translation by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
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