The New World Order of Islam — Page 117
New World Order 117 Today the world has become much more organ- ised, and States are being daily driven to the adoption of policies which should give them greater and greater control over national wealth. If any of the movements to which I have drawn attention becomes supreme, the necessary result would be that individual wealth will be reduced and the greater part of the national wealth will come under the control of the State. The countries in which the successful movements originated and those allied with them may attain to greater happiness and peace, but other countries will be exploited and will be faced with greater misery and suffering. 14 Evidently, therefore, the means adopted in the time of the Holy Prophet sa and the schemes put into force by the first four Khulaf a ’ (Caliphs) to give practical effect to the Islamic social and economic teachings, will not prove adequate today. It is necessary, therefore, that in this age Islamic teachings should be given a practical shape which, while safe- guarding against the defects which I have pointed out in the other movements, should succeed in placing sufficient resources in the hands of those responsible for putting the Islamic principles into force to enable