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However, despite this, a means of subsistence should be acquired including place of abode and other needs.

Islam has laid down laws in this respect like ‘the land belongs to Allah and whoever develops it’50, or ‘whoever attains something which no other Muslim has first attained then he has the greater right to it'.51 Therefore it is possible that a charitable organisation could build simple homes on land with wells or the like for general water and rainwater tanks for drinking water, with an orchard for fruits and vegetables and rearing animals.

Then they could be leased which would make things very simple for housing and food and also clothing which could be made from the wool of the animals reared in the house. If there were someone in the house who could sew or perform another task for the family then that would be enough to cover half the expenses. The other half could be obtained by work, which also promotes physical and mental health, self-satisfaction and independence from others.

So if God blesses us with manufacture and agriculture and we have water and earth and willing hands, we will have become independent from others. As ‘Ali said: ‘Become independent from whoever you wish and you will become his equal'.52 Equality Islam has made the Muslim man an equal to the Muslim woman. This tenet was in effect in Islamic lands until the appearance of nationalisms and geographical borders which were artificially created by the West to split up the Muslims and their country.

These two tactics were adopted by various dictatorial rulers to assist them towards more despotism and more provinces for their sponsors who put them into power in the country on the condition that they implement their decisions, as well as the fact that this completes their deception. I remember that the people coming to Iraq from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran, from the Gulf, Syria and Lebanon used to marry amongst each other and with Iraqis and vice versa.

The same was true of any land transactions even after the fall of the aforementioned rules of land and precedence. Colonialism and its agents set out to demolish the laws of Islam and replace them with their own laws. With the same ease as marriage and selling took place, so did buying and obtaining free goods such as salt and fish and the like.

The same can be said for freedom of movement without passport, there being no geographical borders, along with all the other tenets of Islam that have been gradually eroded.