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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books If Islam Were To Be Established in Iraq Combating Unemployment One of the causes that contribute to the spread of social vices is unemployment, which leads the society towards destruction and disintegration. Unemployment drags the unemployed to moral deprivation, theft, crime, disease, suicide, ignorance, anarchy, etc.

One who does not have a job sells his body to earn money, or steals for that purpose or engages in various crimes and even infidelity, the Messenger of Allah (S) is reported as saying "Poverty leads to infidelity". He is also quoted as saying, "Poverty is the shame of both worlds".

Abu Tharr is quoted as saying "It surprises me how the poor do not rise against the rich with their swords!" An example of the aspect which surprised Abu Tharr has been manifested recently when Communism - which is the pit of poverty and corruption - came into existence but people did not tolerate the humility of captivity, poverty and repression (associated with Communism) for longer than a short period, compared to the lives of major countries and civilisations.

The people relieved themselves from that misery and brought down the Communist regime. A destitute person who is unemployed may develop a psychological complex, which would reflect on the health of the individual since body and soul affect one another. Furthermore, in many cases, poverty and unemployment directly cause diseases and illnesses such as lack of ability and means of receiving medical treatment, stomach ulcer, stroke, anaemia and all consequences of stress and nervous breakdown.

That is why we read in our supplication: "O' Allah enrich every poor and destitute (person)." Also, a poor and destitute person does not have the means to finance his education and therefore his situation is exacerbated by ignorance even further. This subsequently gives him the potential to move towards instigation of anarchy, uprisings, wars, etc.

This is the cause in majority of cases, although unemployment may not always be associated with poverty and destitution, but we are talking about the majority of cases. Therefore it is imperative upon the young Islamic government to plan effective solutions to eradicate unemployment.