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[MahdiUniteMuslims] FW: THE SPIRITUAL ASSETS OF ISLAM - Part 5

 


 


From: mustafa@mawjee.org.uk
To: mustafa@mawjee.org.uk
Subject: THE SPIRITUAL ASSETS OF ISLAM - Part 5
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:44:43 +0000

 
 
THE SPIRITUAL ASSETS OF ISLAM

The Value of Human Being

amidst 

THE SYSTEM OF COMMUNISM AND CAPITALISM

And this brings us to "Islam's answer to the Social Challenge of Communism and Capitalism." Let it be said at the very outset that the challenge of Communism and Capitalism was born and has maintained itself upto this day solely because of the existence of the maladjustment of economic relations. The situation has been rife with unlimited exploitation and unbridled oppression of man by man, leading to wide-spread misery and helplessness and frustration, and finally giving birth to the fire of vengeance and revolt.

The more fortunate among us have worshipped wealth, instead of worshipping God and serving the higher values, until the science of Economics itself has become virtually divorced from morals and other higher considerations. This is what indeed the majority of Economists of the modem world (excluding, of course, the protagonists of Welfare Economics) themselves admit. For instance, according to Marshall: "Economics is neutral between ends: the ends may be noble or ignoble, an economist is not concerned with it."

Islam's answer to the challenge of Communism and Capitalism may be conceived in a two-fold perspective. Firstly, Islam stands for linking up economics with the moral and spiritual values. It does not believe that economic maladjustment can be genuinely resolved without taming the brute in man, namely, without bringing about a general moral and spiritual reformation. It holds that economics must be guided by such moral principles which are grounded in the highest Spiritual Truths.

Secondly, Islam regards the social order where rich and poor, advantaged and destitute, able bodied and sick, all live together as a society - generally the formal helping and assisting the later, and in return gaining peace and tranquillity.

This being the case, Islam directs its entire spiritual and moral force into the economic sphere with a view to eradicate the economic miseries of man through the widest possible distribution of wealth. The Holy Qur'an lays down the principle:

"Wealth should not be permitted to circulate among the wealthy only." (LIX: 7).

It is this principle, and the economic structure built upon it, which alone can be regarded capable of providing the answer to the challenge of Communism on the social plane,—of course practised in the light of Islam's spiritual and moral outlook.

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