In this article I would like to highlight how Islam might...

In this article I would like to highlight how Islam might accomplish such evolutions. To do that, I begin by explaining briefly the Islamic worldview regarding economic affairs. Presenting my definition of wealth, I clarify the importance of wealth in an Islamic assessment. Extracting and elaborating some Islamic economic principles, I show how this worldview can potentially drive individuals and societies toward wealth creation.

Due to the strong association between Islamic teachings on the transcendental self and the issue of love as a necessary basis for the mature society, it can be easily shown that a pious Muslim is more likely motivated to produce public goods beneficial to the whole society including himself, than to be a mere and naive profit maximizer in an egotistic sense.

It is expected that in a mature environment only a sustainable development process will be viable to accomplish - That is, a development process which keeps natural resources, as well as the biological food chain and natural cycles, safe and useable for future generations. Hence, in the last section of this article I shall explain briefly how an Islamic environment is consistent with only a sustainable development process.…