If we are truly concerned about what farḍ kifāya means in practice, we would undertake (i) to ascertain the benefit and harm to either culture or nature of any science or discipline or vocation before investing one’s intellectual, physical, and financial energy in it; (ii) to opt for career paths most relevant to meeting some hitherto unmet needs of our communities or solving some hitherto unsolved, pressing problems; and (iii) to be constantly vigilant about the kind of state or corporate structures, benign or otherwise, one works for, in, or with. For instance, why contribute to the oversupply of corporate lawyers when one can so easily opt for a career path doing legal work pertaining to public interest advocacy? If one has a BBA or MBA, why waste your precious life helping the rich to get richer by free-riding on the commons (heaping salt into the sea) when one can help them to reinvest their wealth into communities, on the one hand, and help the poor to get out of poverty and beggary, on the other? [ʿAdī Setia, Farḍ al-kifāya, Muʿāmala, and the Commonweal: Reconnecting Economics and the Economy to Communities, Islamic Sciences, Vol. 11 (Summer 2013) No. 1: cis-ca.org/jol/JIS-11-1/JIS-11-1-End-matters.pdf]
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