As for economic corruption...

As for economic corruption: examples are deviation from capitalism such as monopoly, the unbalanced control of the wealth and resources of the nation by a few, improper distribution of the wealth, in a way that the rich die of indigestion and the poor of hunger.

Imam Ali (A) is quoted as saying: "Suffice (for you) your disease of indigestion While there are around you those who yearn for a portion of meal" Social Reform As part of its program of reform, the Islamic government must address the issue of social reform. It must amend the sources of deviation and perversion and direct social perversity towards sound and honourable practices by providing righteous environments.

For example transforming wine bars and brothels to places of honourable and decent businesses and extricating those in deviation and helping them to become good and useful members of the society. This means that one may not be prosecuted for practices committed in the past. Furthermore, their practices may not be suspended without providing honourable alternatives, to prevent them from going back to the same practice again.

The prosecution of those who had, in the past, engaged in such practices means the government would fall into the circle of revenge, and we mentioned in a previous section the need for the government to give general amnesty. On the other hand, if the government bans their practices and abandons them to their affairs without providing honourable alternatives, this would cause increased unemployment. At the same time it would mean a quick return to their previous practices.

It is reported that Imam Ali (A) arranged for a prostitute to get married (and lead an honourable life). Of course such a program of reform is regarded as one of the stages of "Enjoining and forbidding evil". If the government commissioned a committee to address these issues, it would be possible to rectify them quickly and without further problems. The same goes for the usury-based banks.

The remedy is to change the current system to that based on Mudahrabah, and this should be carried out under supervision of a panel of experts in economy as well as religious scholars. To suspend the interest-based banking system at the stroke of a pen and without a careful study and without the provision of a better alternative - such as regulation of the Mudahrabah etc.