Never indulge in Alcohol and Gambling

It is a known fact that alcohol has negative impact on individual, family, society, country and world. Even Gambling is known to destroy many. Hence business organization should not be part of any event which involves alcohol and gambling

• Holy Quran

  • O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, [sacrificing on] stone altars [to other than Allah], and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful.

    Allah deprives ‘riba’ of all blessing and develops charity, and Allah does not like an ungrateful, sinful person

  • Satan only wants to cause between you animosity and hatred through intoxicants and gambling and to avert you from the remembrance of Allah and from prayer. So will you not desist?

  • They ask you about wine and gambling. Say, In them is great sin and [yet, some] benefit for people. But their sin is greater than their benefit." And they ask you what they should spend. Say, "The excess [beyond needs]. Thus Allah makes clear to you the verses [of revelation] that you might give thought.

  • And from the fruits of the palm trees and grapevines you take intoxicant and good provision. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who reason.

    Allah has made wine and its price unlawful, and made the dead animal and its price unlawful and made the swine and its price unlawful”

• Holy Bible

  • Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

  • “Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

  • Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.

  • He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried.

  • Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,

  • It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

  • For he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

  • And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

  And also in

  1. Deuteronomy 29:6
  2. Judges 14: 1
  3. Samuel 1: 15
  4. Isaiah 5: 11, 22: 24: 9, 28: 9
  5. Micah 2: 11

• Holy Vedas

  • One becomes sinful if he or she crosses even one of the 7 restraints. Yaskacharya defines these 7 sins in his Nirukta as: Theft, Adultery, Murder of a noble person, Jealousy , Dishonesty, Repeating misdeeds and consumption of alcohol.

  • Those who consume intoxicants lose their intellect, talk rubbish, get naked and fight with each other.

  • An action performed as per the inner voice does not lead to sins. Dumb arrogance against inner voice, however, is source of frustration and miseries in same manner as intoxication and gambling destroy us. Ishwar inspires those with noble elevated thoughts towards progress and propels down those who decide to think lowly. Lowly acts performed even in dreams cause decline.

  Verses that prohibits the consumption of alcohol:

  1. Rigveda book 8 hymn 21 verse 14
  2. Athravaveda 6: 70: 1
  3. Manusmriti Scripture 7: 47-50
  4. Manusmriti: 11: 55
  5. Manusmriti 11: 91
  6. In the Manusmriti Scripture 9:225, the selling of alcohol is also forbidden.

  In Hinduism, Soma and Sura drink are differentiated. Soma is a fermented juice drink used in religion ritual (Vedic Times) and it is said to be an alcoholic beverage that is mentioned numerous times in Veda (Rig Veda 1:116:7, 8:2:12, 10:131:4-5) however, the ingredient for this beverage is already extinct and cannot be made today. There are opinions that it is made from milk or a climbing plant which thrives in mountain areas. (Mark Cartwright: Ancient History Encyclopedia: Soma: 2016).

Rights of Workers/ Employees

It is duty of business organizations to take care of their employees and give their due rights.

• Holy Quran

  • And O my people! Give full measure and weight in justice and reduce not the things that are due to the people, and do not commit mischief in the land, causing corruption.

  • And weigh with scales true and upright. And withhold not things justly due to men, nor do evil in the land, working mischief.

  • Give just measure and weight, nor withhold from the people the things that are their due; and do no mischief on the earth after it has been set in order.

  • Woe to those who give less [than due]. Who, when they take a measure from people, take in full. But if they give by measure or by weight to them, they cause loss.

  • Prophet Mohammed (Peace be upon him) Said: “ Give the wages of employee before his sweat dry”

  • Prophet Mohammed (Peace be upon him) said: “ I am the adversary of a man who employs a worker but does not pay him rightful wages”

  • Do not give them workload more than their ability. If workload is heavy help them”

    People work under you also Human being like you do not throw them into misery and suffering”

  • Prophet Mohammed (Peace be upon him) said : “One who mistreat those under him wll not enter Paradise”

  • Prophet , said: “Whoever employs someone to work for him, he must specify for him his wage in advance.”

• Holy Bible

  • “You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

  • Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts

  • "For the Scripture says, 'You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.’”

  • “You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns. You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and counts on it), lest he cry against you to the LORD, and you be guilty of sin.

Pay your debts/dues

When a business organization holds any bodies dues that person either suffers loss or holds another person’s dues and the cycle continues and affects the employees, government and the business system. Therefore it is necessary to clear timely dues

• Holy Quran

  • “ Do not withhold from the people the things that are their due”

  • "And O my people! Give full measure and weight in justice and reduce not the things that are due to the people, and do not commit mischief in the land, causing corruption.

  • "And weigh with scales true and upright. (182) "And withhold not things justly due to men, nor do evil in the land, working mischief.

• Holy Bible

  • Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.

  • Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

  • Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you.

Never deal in Bribe

Bribery Leads to Corruption and Destruction

If bribery spreads throughout a society, it will undoubtedly be corrupt and doomed to destruction. Bribery is a crime that has grave effects and serious consequences on the individual and the society.

• Holy Quran

  • Do not usurp one another’s property by unjust means, nor offer it to the judges (as bribe) so that you may devour knowingly and unjustly a portion of the goods of others.

  • The Messenger of Allah cursed both the briber and the bribed person.”

• Holy Vedas

  • The corrupt people should not be allowed by the ruler to mix with people

  • It further says in taking bribe for money belonging to the state is misappropriation of public funds. All bribe takers are thieves of God and they get rebirth in the foulest of the womb

  • corruption is illustrated as hydra headed, having nine heads (nine kinds) and it enters the human body through ninety nine sources i.e. nine kinds of corruption enters the body through five senses and the outward looking mind

• Holy Bible

  • And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

  • The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.

  • Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.

  • Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.

  • A bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of the one who gives it; wherever he turns he prospers.

  • For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.

  • Surely oppression drives the wise into madness, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

  • You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.

  • A gift in secret averts anger, and a concealed bribe, strong wrath.

  • In whose hands are evil devices, and whose right hands are full of bribes.

  • Who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!

  • Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.

  • Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.

  • For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.

  • For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

  • And when they had assembled with the elders and taken counsel, they gave a sufficient sum of money to the soldiers and said, “Tell people, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.’ And if this comes to the governor's ears, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.” So they took the money and did as they were directed. And this story has been spread among the Jews to this day.

  • To show partiality is not good, but for a piece of bread a man will do wrong.

  • Yet his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after gain. They took bribes and perverted justice.

Spend on Charity

It is said that if only few rich people spend a minute percent of their savings into charity no one in the world will die of hunger

• Holy Quran

  • Spend out of the means which He has given to you

  • ……..and spend out of the sustenance whereof He has made you trustees.

  • So give what is due to kindred, the needy, and the wayfarer. that is best for those who seek the Countenance of Allah and it is they who will prosper.

  • They ask thee what they should spend (in charity). Say: Whatever ye spend that is good is for parents and kindred and orphans and those in want and for wayfarers. And whatever ye do that is good―Allah knoweth it well.

  • Charity shall go to the poor who are suffering in the cause of GOD, and cannot emigrate. The unaware may think that they are rich, due to their dignity. But you can recognize them by certain signs; they never beg from the people persistently. Whatever charity you give, GOD is fully aware thereof.

• Holy Vedas

  • Bhavarth : O man earn like a man who has hundreds of hands and give it to others like the, man who thousands of hands. Attain the full fruit of your labour and skill in this world.

  • Bhavarth : O yogi, endowed with yogic force, cultivate noble traits, like an exalted hero. Go to all places. Be friendly towards the charitably disposed person, who perfects his riches through charity. Thou art the mainstay of yoga, being full of mental peace, free from desire of passions, full of strength like the sun and earth, and purifier of all like the sun.

  • Bhavarth : O enlightened person! you being a good guardian, cherish intellect and good deeds. As thousands of pools of water feed deep ocean. as a cowherd feeds his cows, and as the cow lick up grass and as streams flow into the lake, same way you look after others. Therefore you and your followers enjoy happiness of all types.

• Holy Bible

  • Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his deed.

  • Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

Never do undue Harm to Resources

The method of business or production should not cause an undue and excessive harm to GOD given resources and bounties for the benefit of all mankind.

• Holy Quran

  • When he turns his back his aim everywhere is to spread mischief through the earth and destroy crops and cattle. But Allah loveth not mischief.

  • ………So eat and drink of the sustenance provided by Allah, and do no evil nor mischief on the (face of the) earth.

  • The Qur'an speaks repeatedly against spreading mischief or corruption in the land.

  • Do no mischief on the earth, after it hath been set in order, but call on Him with fear and longing (in your hearts): for the Mercy of Allah is (always) near to those who do good.

• Holy Vedas

  • Remark : In order to purify the enviornmental ills, the people should take necessary action by making the atmosphere and water free from contamination and pollution.

  • Bhavarth : May the mother earth soon fill up whatever i dig out of her. Of her who is fit to be sought after, may i not damage those parts which are vital to vegetarian, or the interior regions where she stores rare and precious things.

• Holy Bible

  • You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it. You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, for I the LORD dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.”

  • And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.

  • “When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. You may eat from them, but you shall not cut them down. Are the trees in the field human, that they should be besieged by you?