A recent Pew poll asked Americans to look 30 years into the future and this produced some interesting results. The American public foresees “a country in decline economically, politically and on the world stage”. [1] In contrast, inhabitants in South Asia are living with America’s waning global fortunes.

Only to start with as a short reminder of what Islam’s main pillars in prevention of poverty are: -      Islam has regulated the issue of ownership in a very clear and efficient way. Every individual is permitted to gain and to possess private property on everything that is not public or not state property, through the ways that Islam has made permissible (work, trade, inheritance, gifts, etc.), i.e. except steeling,…

• It is Islam, its culture, history and heritage that are the common uniting factors that bond Muslims across the Muslim world, whether Sunni or Shia, while the Western-imposed secular system has exploited differences for political aims. The Islamic beliefs that unite them are much greater than certain theological differences that exist between the various schools of thought.

“But if the Truth had followed their inclinations, the heavens and the earth and whoever is in them would have been ruined. Rather, We have brought them their message, but they, from their message, are turning away.”