Muslim's Contributions in Management

Abstract

Management concepts and management techniques have always been used in every step of life, either consciously or unconsciously and the practice of management is as old as recorded history. The Muslims have historically created Islamic endowments for the purpose of caring, sharing, providing, controlling, directing, organizing the community of the universe. From the initial stage of the civilization Hazrat Adam(Alihi WaSalam) who was the first prophet and leader of human civilization. The next successor of the world who's contribution in their own field in each action was imitable. The representative of the human beings such as Hazrat Ibrahim(A.S) Hazrat Musa(A.S), Hazrat Isa(A.S), Hazrat Daud(A.S) and so on were had a great contributions in their own field. Last prophet of Islam Hazrat Muhammad(pbuh) the pioneer of Muslim leaders, the greatest social reformer and manager in the world. He had a great contribution in all the parts of management. But conventional authors of management have not mentioned any contribution of Islam in management. The contributions of Islam in different aspects of management can never be over emphasized. According to the Holy Qur’an, Holy Prophet (pbuh) and companions (RA) faced lot of problems in managing the Islamic state and they solved those problems by introducing divine principles and guidance given by Allah (SWT).In this paper an attempt has been taken to discuss briefly about the contributions Muslim in Management mentioning its different aspects.