The Prophet (s) said, “The believers are bound to their conditions.

The Prophet (s) said, “The believers are bound to their conditions.” Keeping the production means: Craftsmen and employees must protect the tools of working and the productive means. The employees should never neglect them because they are their trusts. Damages of the production devices cause economical loss and injure employers.

Development of wealth resources: Craftsmen and employees should work sincerely and faithfully for developing and preserving the sources of wealth since the economic life relies upon them. It is impossible for any nation to develop economically unless workers possess a general cognizance of the necessity of conserving and maturing the nation’s resources of wealth.

Professional specialization: Professional specialization helps in the national development, productive increase, and economical prosperity. Governments are responsible for encouraging these goals by sending the seekers of specialization to institutions inside and outside the country. They are also responsible for meeting the needs of these people. This is surely the most important social responsibility.

Activity and firmness: The Islamic education in work cares for distributing the spirits of activity and firmness in the employees’ minds. It also cares for warning against laziness and sloth, since these matters paralyze the economic movements and freeze the energies. The following supplication is related to the Prophet’s household. It shows the abomination of laziness and sloth. “O Allah!

I seek thy guard against sloth, laziness, inactivity, and indolence.” Imam as-Sadiq (a) said, “Beware of tedium and laziness. They are the key to every vile. The tedious cannot fulfill any duty. The lazy cannot keep any pledge.” [1] Imam Musa (a) said, “Beware of tedium and laziness. They block the shares of this world and the Hereafter.” [2] Islam abhors laziness, forbids unemployment, and censures the unemployed because it leads to poverty, misery, and neediness.

Muslims in the early ages [1] Refer to Men La Yahduruhul Faqih. [2] Refer to the lifetime of Imam Musa bin Jafar. disgusted long rest and stillness. They came to working fastidiously. Imam as-Sadiq (a) exposed the deeds of those companions before his adherents. He said, “Do not be lazy in seeking earnings. Our forefathers used to hasten in seeking their livings.” [1] Proudly, Islam calls to diligence, activity, and dispatching to working fields so that the life of luxury and amenity will prevail.