Because we all need to work and we are all required to comply with Allah’s religion in the workplace, a comprehensive compilation of the Islamic laws and ethical standards related to employment would be extremely helpful. From what I have seen, there is a great shortage of books in English that thoroughly address this issue. Consequently, there is a void in the library of English Islamic works where a book like this should be. This work is a humble attempt to fill that void.

This work began as notes created and complied by Dr. Islam al-Murābiṭ for a class he was teaching to university students and future professionals. These notes were highly academic and did not “speak” to the layman. While these notes and the sources from which they were drawn certainly have utility, in this work I have sought to make these important concepts draw more comprehensively from Islamic sources, become more accessible to the layman, and become more geared toward Muslim employers and employees.