Meaning of Cooperation in Holy Prophet’s Seerah
Ta’avon is a religious word with a moral connotation that literally means cooperation, assistance, and participation. However, it is used as a scientific term in numerous sciences such as biology, ecology, sociology, anthropology, psychology, economics, and development.
In general, it has been used in many concepts, the most important of which are the following:
1. Cooperation and joint efforts to satisfy a common need.
2. Self-help and not waiting for help from others.
3. Helping each other and considering one’s success dependent on the success of others.
4. Work that takes place within a cooperative company.
5. Helping others. Based on this meaning of Ta’avon, it refers to helping others without expecting help or thinking about the benefit that comes from helping them, which is completely mutual help, sacrifice and self-sacrifice. In the practical life of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and his family (AS), most of the efforts to meet the needs of others were carried out in the form of Ta’avon in the sense of mutual help, which in many cases also led to sacrifice and self-sacrifice.
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The Islamic school of thought considers cooperation as one of the necessities of normative thinking and, by emphasizing the benevolence and haste in cooperation and mutual assistance of believers, warns them against any cooperation in evils that would fuel inequality and social injustice.
