In a capitalist society where wealth is a priority, morality is often overlooked. Except for those social entrepreneurs which are willing to compromise profits as a priority and prioritize social impact.
As I dive deeper into the business world, with all my ambitions in creating larger, bigger and impressive things, I couldn’t help to ignore the issue of morality. Yes, if I fail and can’t build those big things I aspire, who cares? But I do not fear failure as failure is a learning tool. I’ll pick myself up and do it again.
However I am pissed off with some people which “con” people and get off with all the money. Sometimes those are are “con-ed” include people like politicians which drag the rakyat to believe the things they “rasmi” on big ceremonies.
A businessman who is a Muslim should put morality, integrity and honesty above profit. The equation is different;
Revenue = Price x Volume (This is the focus, the more people we serve and bring better impact, the more pahala we get)
Subsequently, with honesty and respect to customers, we gain more revenue which adds to our bottom line, profits. Of course cost are meant to be controlled.
But the point here is morality is the principle behind all this equation.
Muslims are a society who seeks to gain Allah’s pleasure in this life and the afterlife. The problem today is they lose objectivity.
Giving Muslims and the society at large (including non-Muslims) a better life, makes everyone better through an economy based on ethics.
