Islam's Response to Contemporary Issues — Page 173
Economic Peace 173 Islamic Economic System As with the social system advocated by Islam, the Islamic economic system commences with the premise that all that is in the heavens and the earth has been created by God, Who has bestowed man various provisions on trust. As a trustee, man will be held accountable for the discharge of this trust. The possession or absence of wealth is a means of trial so that in both abundance and adversity, those who are mindful of their accountability may be distinguished from those who resort to callousness and scant attention to the sufferings of the rest of mankind. The Holy Quran repeatedly reminds us: To Allah belongs the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth; and Allah has power over all things. 3 Then it teaches that if everything has been created by God for all, some of it should be shared amongst men. Have they a share in the Kingdom? Then would they not give men even so much as the little hollow in the back of a date stone? 4 Allah has favoured some of you above others in worldly gifts. But those more favoured will not restore any part of their worldly gifts