23.         Umm-ul-Mu`mineen, Sayyidatuna ‘Aaishah Siddiqah رَضِیَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَنْهَا has stated, ‘(Sayyiduna) Zubayr Bin ‘Awwam رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ is amongst those, about whom, the Glorious Quran says: These are the people, despite being injured they presented themselves on the command of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ and His Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم’.’ (Tareekh-e-Madinah, vol. 18, pp. 358)

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب       صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Summary of Bayan

Dear Islamic brothers! Today we have heard about the successful businessman Sayyiduna Zubayr Bin ‘Awwam رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ. We have heard that a successful businessman is he who does trade with good intentions, does trade by Halal and permissible manners, learns Shar’i Islamic principles of business, does business for his small children and old parents, does not speak lies, but speaks the truth. A successful businessman is honest, not deceitful. His business does not prevent him from offering Salah, observing fasts, performing Haj, paying Zakah etc. He does permissible trade in a permissible manner, keeps his promises, does not find faults with the goods at the time of purchasing them, does not excessively praise goods at the time of selling them, does not become lazy in paying his back his debts.

A successful businessman is that person who is active, not lazy, polite, not hasty, who exposes the defects of his goods himself at the time of selling it. He does not inaccurately weigh and measure; he asks to do good and prevents from evils; he neither accepts fake notes nor does he give fake notes to anyone else. If someone gives him a fake note, he discards it. He buys the goods from the poor at a high price, and sells goods to them at a low price. He pays off his debts to the creditor before the creditor asks for it. He does not pay off his debts after calling the person, but rather he goes to that person to pay off his debts. A successful businessman is he who the worldly market does not prevent from the market of the Hereafter (i.e. the Masajid); he is not a servant of wealth, but a servant of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ and the true slave of the Beloved Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم.