Nature Of Man, Work, And Happiness

In the pre-modern world, the Muslim attitude and understanding of work, a career or an economic pursuit, its purpose and criteria of success is dependent on the metaphysical conceptions of man and happiness in Islam—abandoning such understanding would entail great practical repercussions: the economic pursuit would render man, his society and the environment in a state of disorder as opposed to a harmonious condition which we call justice (‘adl).