NEED AS A CONCEPT IN ISLAMIC ECONOMICS

Islam as a religion embraces human being in a broad frame. According to this, human being has several significant characteristics inside; in other words, human being is a small model of the universe. According to Islam, one of the reasons why human beings were sent to the world is to make the world beautiful and liveable instead of making the world uninhabitable and wasted. In Islamic economic approach, human beings possess moral values and these values are effective in all their economic decisions. In this respect, not everyone thinks only of herself / himself. S/he thinks about the interests and prosperity of the whole society. S/he is not selfish, is a sharer and fair-minded. If it is necessary, s/he firstly considers interest and prosperity of the society instead of her/himself. A Muslim meets the needs and evaluates her/his interests until the end. But s/he does so within the framework of the commandments and prohibitions of Allah/God, with regarding reasonable measures. To sum up, Islam determines limits needs of human being of Islam on the way of being “Homo Islamicus”. In this article, unlike the Western economic approach, which regards the concept of limitlessness of needs as the fundamental axis in the name of "individual freedom", the main approaches of Islam on need will be addressed