"Arise, and take up thy bed" - Capitalism vs. Islam

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Capitalism vs. Islam

The evil of capitalism is that bad guys make big fortunes while good guys have to suffer poverty.

And these bad guys naturally bribe politicians and acquire friendships from bureaucrats.  They can expect that lawmakers who are financially supported by them would always act as their deputies in the parliament or congress.  And, civil servants whose major concern is career progress would not stand against capitalists and politicians who have financial and administrative power.

However, to be super rich or become a capitalist, you don't need to be honest, generous, pious, friendly, and responsible.  You just need luck and ability to make money more than others.

If you are not honest, generous, pious, friendly, and responsible, you can more concentrate on money making.  So, cold-blooded guys have more chances to be rich and capitalists than good guys.

Accordingly, the society ruled by capitalism is essentially not blessed.  It is a cursed society.  Because leaders lack virtues God wants a man to possess, such society would fall in a fatal tragedy sooner or later.

While they act rationally, their rule continues.  If they concede that democracy and social justice are necessary to avoid revolution and uprising of poor people and accept fairness and justice to a necessary degree, they can continue their rule.  But, if their greed and arrogance go beyond a certain level, any debacle such as the former Great Depression or subprime loan crisis could happen.

Capitalism is a system where bad, biased, arrogant, and foolish guys take power with their rich to control poor people.  Leaders in capitalistic society are not great guys in terms of morality, humanity, justice, a spirit of duty and responsibility, and true understanding of meanings of various factors in the human world and the nature.

Of course, mankind cannot manipulate well socialism and communism.  A society based on such ideology can be worse than capitalism, since leaders therein would suppress freedom of people.

As we cannot destroy capitalism by physical force, we have to cope with the evil of capitalism following holy teachings, since it is God that has created this universe after all.

Not a system or an organization of religion but a linkage with God can stop the evil of capitalism. And for an individual to link to God, he or she needs a holy book or the word of God.  And Islam is the religion that requests adherence to its holy book, the Koran, from its followers.

That is also why Muslims would not abandon their religion while they know if they convert to Christianity they can be richer like Europeans and Americans.

Conversely, without Muslims in the world, capitalists would exert more evil in the world.



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Mar 2:11 I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.