Intellectual Asset and the Role of Man from the Viewpoint of Islam

Among the most important purposes of institutions are collecting, maintaining and the efficient use of intellectual assets. This study aims at analyzing the nature of intellectual asset and its privileges in comparison with physical and material asset and also human`s role in it and solutions to promote intellectual resources in Islamic sources. Using a descriptive-analytic method, this paper analyzes intellectual asset inspired by Islamic sources and Quranic verses and narrations of the infallibles. The findings show that intellectual asset has a meaningful relationship with knowledge management. Respectively, one can say that; the intellectual resource is an efficient and complete knowledge that human is its creator, processor and distributor. The advantages of intellectual asset are that they will not be lessened by distribution and generosity and it is human`s companion in his life and after his death. It will strengthen human on the plane of eternal prosperity and passing on the difficulties after death.