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Islam and Economic Justice
Engineer, Asghar Ali
Engineer, Asghar Ali
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Justice is one of the central values of Islam and any economic system which is not based on juice cannot be acceptable to Islam. Qur’an greatly emphasizes distributive justice and expresses its full and unqualified support for weaker sections of society which Qur’an calls musad’ifun and condemns arrogant ruling classes (called mustakbirun) which suppress the weaker sections. We would like to throw more light on this in this article. I was inspired to write this piece by the movement launched in America which also spread to other parts of the world specially Europe. This movement raised an interesting slogan ‘we are ninetynine per cent’ since, leaders of this movement maintain, one percent Americans have concentrated all wealth in their hands depriving 99% people of America of their just rights. Hundreds of people wearing badges ‘we are 99% can carrying similar slogans gathered in Wall Street which is financial district of America and also occupied other strategic places.
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2012
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