Rezeki/Wealth

Salam and welcome dear friends.

This is the first entry of this blog and rather than shoving my opinions and ideas down your throat, I decided to tell you why I started this blog ; then i will shove my opinion and ideas down your throat [we shall keep our discussions lively here :-) ]

I am a man of finance, learned in the way of the financial world. I was happily climbing up the corporate ladder when a sequence of event forced me to take the plunge into entrepreneurship.  It was a harrowing experience, coming from an annual six figure salary to a big fat zero.But it was also the time I had an epiphany, an inspiration on the concept of 'rezeki' / wealth which gave be tremendous strength and has kept me strong since.

I had 'issues' with my CEO then. We just seemed unable to get along and he was visibly uncomfortable with me; safe to say it was a bitter relationship and I can certainly feel the animosity. I refused to quit for there was no valid reason for one. Eventually he won and I was strongly advised to quit. I looked at the 'advisory letter' and I felt downtrodden, rotten to the core.  Then out of nowhere it hit me.

"Why I should I be afraid? My rezeki/wealth is not determined by my boss, or his boss, or even the bank itself. Even their rezeki - my boss, his boss and the bank - are determined in the Al-Mighty Allah" it rang in my head. Have faith in the Al-Mighty Allah for real for once, I told myself again. All while I believe Allah exists in all the majesty, but i realized that I had subconsciously suppressed the faith in Allah's ability to direct change; I attributed my successes to mainly my efforts alone; good  university because of good grades; good job because of good university; good money because of good job. It was then, a time for a change. An opportunity to correct my perspective and move forward.

Moved forward I did and I never looked back since. I find that the more I put my faith in Allah, the stronger I get and the better I was rewarded, in the most unthinkable way.  And as I journeyed my way through as an Muslim entrepreneur, in the so-called capitalist word that is filled with 'so called necessary evil' to succeed, i found that misconception and negative-fallacies regarding Islam and entrepreneurism are abundant. That Islam could not grasp the concept of the value of money (interest) which is the central pillar of the world economics; in Islam riba (usury/interest) is Haram. And that the characters of a Muslim does not fit the mold of an entrepreneur; that one has to dabble in the necessary evil to succeed as an entrepreneur. I just do not agree to these. Islam and Entrepreneurism is perfect!

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