EVIDENCE STRATEGIC PLANNING BASED ON QURAN, SIRAH AND BIBLE


QURAN & SIRAH 

🌼 Prophet Daud was a superb strategic thinker who understood strategy even while still youth. He did not attack Goliath's strenghts but was inspired by Allah to attack his weakness.
🌼 Prophet Yusuf used strategy effectively.
🌼 In Surah Yusuf, he planned a scenario that would shame his brothers into repentance - placing a drinking cup in one of his brothers' sandlebag and accusing them of theft, he prompted them to admit their crime and deal with their past misdeed.
🌼 Prophet Nuh reacted in a proactive strategic manner building the ark before the flood, selecting pairs of animals, working collaboratively with the believers.
🌼 The migrants from Makkah to Madinah in September 622CE followed a route that was exactly the opposite of what his pursues had anticipated.
🌼 The treaty of Hudaibiyyah, turned out to be a clear victory for the Muslims and provide a much needed strategic, short-term respite.
🌼 Positioning the Muslim's army, draining the well at Badr, positioning the Muslims archers on Badr's hills, using the trench as a defensive technique at khandaq are vivid testimonies of the Prophet's appreciation of planning and strategems
🌼 Quran repeatedly reminds us that the Supreme Strategist is Allah - the  best planner.
🌼 Allah talks about His planning or the sign of His Perfect Plan
🌼 For example, careful crafting of the natural environment as one of His signs (35: 27-28)




BIBLE

 🌸 Moses (Musa) - A consummate strategist who led the nation of Israel out of Egypt, grappled with his role as a leader.
🌸 His father-in-law (Shu'ayb) understood his plight and taught him strategic human resource planning - how to manage his work delegating parts of it according to a well-established hierarchy 
🌸 In the Bible, each of Israel's 12 tribes had separate areas in the camp, their own leaders, specific responsibilities.








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