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Rockefeller’s advice – 6

Rockefeller’s advice – 6

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 Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon the honor of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his master, peace and blessings be upon him, are very much in agreement. Now we come to the sixth point of Rockefeller's advice to his son, which was, he said, business is war, act accordingly. Now, Andrew Carnegie was his greatest competitor in the oil business. And when they built a pipeline threatening Standard Oil, which is Rockefeller's company, Rockefeller bought the railroad and he bought the oil transportation. He bought Monopoly from the railroad and dropped shipping costs and crushed his competitor. His advice was, attack where they are weakest, not strongest. Having said that, this is one point on which I do not agree. And I'll give you my reasons by telling you two stories. One is a story which I heard, which I also... confirmed it to the extent possible, which is in Saudi Arabia, in Makkah, in one of the big binoud stores. Somebody started a typical similar store. Binoud is a grocery store, big, big, huge big grocery store, grocery store chain. So somebody opened another grocery store across the street from them. With food and tea and whatever else. You know, whatever they're selling. So the manager of the binoud store, obviously, he got worried. And, you know, he said, what's going to happen to our business and so on. But the owner of binoud, he responded and he said to the manager, send some of your people to help him. And he sent him food, he sent him tea. And he said to them, we have a Musalla here in the store. So at the time of Salah, you're welcome to come and pray here with us and so on. The manager was shocked because, you know, you're supposed to kill your competition. And here you're helping the competition. The owner explained very simply, and this is where our Islamic values and ethics and our aqidah and our faith are. And this is where our Islamic values and ethics and our aqidah and our faith are. And this is where our Islamic values and ethics and our faith are. And our faith must come in the way always for decision making. And he says that our sustenance has been determined by Allah. Allah SWT wrote what we are supposed to get. And they will not, a competition, they will not be able to take even one rial if it is already declared for us. It belongs to us. So why don't we try to get some rewards, hasanat, and help them? Now, this is the business philosophy which... is rooted in Islam. And I see this wherever people are following the religion, alhamdulillah. One of the places I see it is in Hyderabad. In Turbazar, there is... which is the bazaar that comes... that is after... when you're going towards your city, when you pass Mazamjai market, the... Usmanganj, which is the... not Turbazar, Usmanganj. Usmanganj, which is the bazaar that... comes after Mazamjai market. Usmanganj has a whole series of hardware stores. So they sell everything. I mean, you name it, they sell it. Including... you know, electrical fittings and lights and this and that. And all kinds of hardware. Now, almost all the stores... I'm saying almost as a safety measure. But all the stores... are owned by Buhari people. Every single one of them. Now, you go to any of those stores... and you ask for whatever thing you want. If that person doesn't have it, he won't tell you, I don't have it. He will give you a seat. He will order some tea for you. And he will send his... employee... to a neighboring store... and say, with the instruction that... this is what this customer wants. If they have it, bring it. And the neighboring store will give him that item... and... the item is given to you. He won't send you to that store. He'll get the item for you from the neighboring store. Now, the neighboring store... is his competition. Right?
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