Islam and Communism — Page 30
30 commerce will, then, change into co-operative systems of commerce and industry which help in diluting and dissipating great hoardings. The general wealth of the country will either pass into the hands of the government or become fairly distributed in the whole community. It is obvious that co-operative enterprises or government ownership in certain well-defined sectors promotes political as well as national interests and is in no way harmful to them. . The prohibition of interest and usury also prevents the rich from exploiting the poor. For, then, they can no longer suck the blood of the labouring class. To say that present-day business cannot be run without the instituion of interest is an illusion bred by present West-ridden conceptions. It is the outcome of Western capitalistic institutions which have become accepted (in some cases blindly) all over the world. But they can gradually be dispensed with. After all, before the rise of the West, trade and commerce carried on in greater part of the world were