Planning in the Islamic Tradition the Case of Hijrah Expedition (Report‪)‬

Byline: Javed Iqbal and Muhammad Mushtaq Ahmad Abstract This paper describes the origin of planning as a managerial function emphasizing the contribution of Islam in this process. The term scientific management though was first floated in 1911, this paper argues that management principles existed in some form, from an Islamic point of view, since the inception of humanity as they were, in some shape, part of the knowledge of all things which Allah taught to Adam (peace be on him) and they were practiced by the Prophet Muhammad (peace be on him) as well when Islam re-dawned on the soil of Arabian Peninsula. Taking Hijrah, one of the major events in the life of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be on him), as an exemplar to illustrate the notion of planning and execution by the Prophet (peace be on him) as a strategy to achieve his objectives, this paper attempts to apply Weihrich and Koontz's planning model to evaluate the Prophet (peace be on him)'s strategy to leave securely from Makkah and to reach Yathrib safely.