Kitab al-Kasb by Imam Al Ghazali Study and Analysis in Light of Contemporary Economic Application

Abstract

This research deals with the study and analysis of “Kitab Alkasb” from the book “Ihya Ulum al-Deen” of Al-Ghazali, and aims objectively to identify the controls contained in the book, extrapolating and analyzing in the light of the contemporary Islamic economic application in light of what the economy has reached today. This research referred to al-Ghazali’s most important statements concerning earnings, its controls and methods, and presented it to the economic realities that we live today, by presenting contemporary economic applications related to the controls and provisions he referred. This research concluded to a set of results, and its total, that the book of Alkasb of Al-Ghazali formes a rich and important base that will control the behavior of the customers in the market and provide them with what they care about in daily transactions, as well as establish a strong structure that regulates and controls market practices, in addition to the fact that the economic relations of individuals in the market depend on the existence of cooperative motives based on the base of The deen (religion) is naseehah (advice, sincerity), and the application of this rule and the following market controls, which would achieve fair competition among the customers, It brings the market to a better position than full competition.