Business Ethics: Keeping Our Promise

In business, a promise is a psychological contract indicating a transaction between two people, where the first person to say the second person to provide services and the provision of value for him now and will be used or not. The promise may also be a pledge or guarantee. The promise may be spoken or written as a contract. Breaking a promise not only is often regarded as moral turpitude, even illegal, too, such as contracts that are not firmly held. God recommends to keep his word in the sale and other activities. Al Maidah mentioned in paragraph 1: O ye who believe! Aqad-aqad fill it. Also mentioned in the letter of Al-Israa verse 34: And come not nigh to the orphan's property except with a better way (useful) until he reaches maturity and fulfill the promise, the promise that prompted the real accountability. Similarly, in surah Al Baqarah verse 177: It is not your faces towards east and west is a virtue, but it is actually good faith in Allah, days later, the angels, the books, the Prophets and gives his beloved property to relatives, orphans, the poor, the traveler (who needed help) and those who beg and (liberating) slave, founded the prayer, and give to charity and the people who kept his word when he promised and those who are patient in hardship and suffering and in the war. They are the ones who are true (faith) and they are the ones who fear Allah.

In business s.a.w. Rasulullah always keep your promises, both before the Prophet and after the Prophet. Before becoming a prophet, he never deal with Abdullah Ibn Abdul Hamzah. Abdullah Ibn Abdul-Hamza said: "I've bought something from the Prophet before he received his prophetic task and since there are still matters to him, so I'm promising to take him, but I forgot. When recalled three days later, akupun go to these places and find the Prophet was still there. "Prophet said:" You have made me nervous, I'm here waiting for you "(Abu Dawud). Of the incident shows how the Rasul of Allah keep your promises. Although the duration of three days, he kept waiting and still keep their promises. After waiting for people who come the Prophet was not angry, but was pleased that the Prophet had been cured of unrest with the awaited arrival of such people.

Thanks To: M.Suyanto

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