The Role and Functions of Intention in the Islamic Management

Regarding the importance and recurrence of the issue of intention in the field of Islamic management, especially in modifying the concept of performance from Islamic viewpoint, this research is intended to study the feedback of this issue in the traditions of the Infallibles in order to determine the precise scope of this Islamic concept. This research follows library method data collection and the thematic analysis for analyzing the data. Due to the fact that a narrative study has been carried out in this research, the researchers tried to use an appropriate method fitting the subject in the collection phase, which is the method of perceiving Hadiths. Eventually, the research findings identified the role of intention in two dimensions of importance, (such as the conditionality of acceptance of action, being parallel or even more important than action), and the roots (including wilayah, heart, sincerity, knowledge, and power of religious induction), and their application in three types (including honesty, goodness, and the necessity of adjustment to the performance, etc.), genetic effects (such as the strength of the body, the effect on nutrition, etc.) and performance evaluation (including two areas of evaluation of the other people, such as the effectiveness and of practice and lack of influence on economic topics, and the evaluation subject to Allah such as Divine reward and punishment.