"My Lord, pointing at me to be grateful for favors thou hast thou given me and to my father and mother so that I can do good works that get the pleasure of His goodness to me to give (give kindness) to the child's granddaughter. Verily I repent to You and truly I am of those who surrender themselves. " (QS: 46: 15)
With the very serious financial crisis in the world today, it should be all business introspection - including us - to what we have done so far. Introspection is also done by even the most prestigious business schools in America that is Harvard Business School (HBS). Publication their famous Harvard Business Review (HBR)-also facilitate the long debate about whether they have failed to educate its students so that this crisis happen?, Then how should they educate students in the future? ff.
Because embarrassed by their failure in a glamorous industry and markets such as U.S. auto industry and Wall Street capital markets, they are now beginning to learn from these markets during the market called Base of the Pyramid (BOP). Namely the market in countries where the population majority of the poorest such as India and some African countries. The researchers from leading business schools began searching for the values of what they can learn from these poor countries to instructional materials on students in the future.
One of their findings, published in HBR this month's edition is a way of looking at success not only assessed the economic glasses. In addition to economic criteria, they are now beginning to look at other important criteria such as growth ability and the relationship between its people.
If only HBS willing to learn from Islam, they will be able to easily and more accurate in assessing the success of individuals or corporations. In Islam there is the concept of extraordinary blessings, to the extent that the petition was blessed in so many prayers from the prayer we begin to eat, pray ask for sustenance, the prayer for the newlyweds, prayer etc. marital relationship.
Although these blessings are intangible, does not mean that its presence can not be felt. It's like the wind, though we can not see but can easily feel the presence, or even measure the speed, direction etc..
When the provision that delegated to us (no matter how many), it increases the sustenance of worship and 'good deeds we are - then God willing fortune brings blessings to us. Conversely, if fortune is our neglect of worship and does not encourage 'pious charity - it's likely that it is not blessed fortune.
Thus the complete tutorial on this religion, so pray for easy good deeds of Him who can pleasure themselves were taught by Him in verse which I quoted at the beginning of this paper. How unfortunately God in His servants, so the way to ask Him had made his editorial staff and also we are told when to begin to diligently read the prayer.
Benediction of God is taught us to often we read after we reach the age of 40. God loved us so it does not want His servants to do that in vain after he was past 40 years.With this guidance, then any activities that we do after we reach 40 years of age the size of success is whether we do this can be the good deeds that got him pleasure or not.
The husband and wife of my friend who was a pious remarkable when you receive a very prestigious job offers in the neighboring country, they accept the job but the contract would not be too long before wanting to measure the blessings of their new job is. How do they measure the blessings of his work?, Simple he said. If the new job they could continue his evening prayer on a regular basis or even increase, God willing baraka job - then the work will be continued. If not, most likely the work is not blessed - it must be abandoned.
God willing the new jobs these couples really blessed, the presence of 'wind' it so real with various good deeds that the remarkable increase not only felt by the individual but also felt by his relatives and his friends. Wa Allahu A'lam.
