The duty of the treasury is twofold: To meet all the needs of the people.

The duty of the treasury is twofold: To meet all the needs of the people. To look after every aspect of the welfare of the people.

For example, the treasury gives money to a poor man so that he can be free of want; to a traveller in need so that he can return home; to an unmarried man so that he can get married; to someone who is sick who cannot afford treatment so that he can get well; to someone who does not have any capital to start a project so that he can make a living; to someone who needs a house to live in, in order that he might build one; to someone who wants to embark upon a course of study but has not got enough money so that he is able to do so - and so on and so on.

In short, every person in need approaches the treasury which is then obliged to help him out of duty and so this help is not like a donation or act of piety. From another aspect, it is incumbent upon the treasury to look after the welfare of the Muslim community as a whole by, for example, building roads and illuminating them efficiently, establishing hospitals, opening schools and building mosques.

As a result no one will remain in need nor will there be any aspect of the public good inadequately funded.

With these three things to which we have alluded: the extension of freedom, the simplicity of the machinery of government and the institution of the treasury, Islam is able to make society more prosperous and so the Islamic economic system is the best system and differs from capitalism, wherein the distribution of wealth is unbalanced, and from a communist economy which does not attend to the priorities and real needs of the people.

Peace in Islam 10-PEACE IN ISLAM Question: Is Islam a religion of peace or a religion of war? Answer: Islam is a religion of peace and not of war and the proof of this are God’s words in the Qur’an: “O you who believe, enter all of you into peace”[2: 208], also “And if they are disposed towards peace, you, also, be so disposed”[8: 61]. Question: So does Islam say you must submit when confronted with an oppressor or aggressor?

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