Our world is full of poverty, injustice, helplessness but the question is do we have hope? Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark said "islam is the best chance the poor of the planet have for any hope of decency in their lives" The Prophet strongly advocated business entrepreneurship and this was one of the main reasons that the Muslim community never faced abject poverty.
Our world is full of poverty, injustice, helplessness but the question is do we have hope? Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark said "islam is the best chance the poor of the planet have for any hope of decency in their lives" The Prophet strongly advocated business entrepreneurship and this was one of the main reasons that the Muslim community never faced abject poverty.
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Our world is full of poverty, injustice, helplessness but the question is do we have hope? Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark said "islam is the best chance the poor of the planet have for any hope of decency in their lives" The Prophet strongly advocated business entrepreneurship and this was one of the main reasons that the Muslim community never faced abject poverty.
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Many years back perhaps when I was on a vacation in
India while I was a student in England visited a graveyard and noticed a very young child sitting between graves trying to eat a loaf of stale bread. He was trying to eat the white part by removing the fungus which has formed on the bread. I enquired about his parents he replied that his father was no more and his mother is hospitalized and he has no where to go. I left him to his fate and moved on with my life as if he was a piece of art, like a sad dismal painting of Van Gogh. The boy is not alone in his misery; he got company in fact lots of company, our world is full of poverty, injustice, helplessness but the question is do we have hope? Is there any hope in these hopeless times?
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark said "Islam is
the best chance the poor of the planet have for any hope of decency in their lives. It is the one revolutionary force that cares about humanity." I wonder how the Mullahs would react to such a statement, many times I avoid them because they are so intellectually predictable or perhaps I should put it as predictably unintellectual. For long these heavily bearded men has clergized the Islamic civilization and their rhetoric from the pulpits has failed to reap any tangible results. Religious jargon, boring lengthy lectures on morality and impractical approach took the most important thing away from the Islamic world, Islam. Islam is a sure way of eradicating poverty. Long before even Keynes proposed his economic theory and the western world applied the concept of welfare state it was Islam which championed the fight against poverty and injustice. Wealth creation is an important part in community development. Poverty is a parasite which devours an individual’s basic rights to live life in a decent manner. The Prophet strongly advocated business entrepreneurship and this was one of the main reasons that the Muslim community never faced abject poverty.
If Islamic civilization has to be revived in a peaceful
manner then somebody has to finance it and we cannot expect this task from Bill Gates, Muslims has to take the initiative and this will only happen when we have wealthy practicing Muslims. We stand at the crossroads, either we will be perished in the annals of time as once upon a time great civilization or we emerge a tide of hope to the millions who live in hunger and injustice. The quest to make a better world I believe starts from self- reformation and that is what will be the first step towards bringing a change, a change which I dream will bring an era of sustainable development, respect for human rights and eradication of social evils. Muslim Entrepreneurship on the basis of Islamic principles is the only way to drastically improve the society economically and fulfill basic necessities of the people. I hope to see a time when no little boy has to eat fungus ridden bread and we have enough wealth to make this dream come true.