The New World Order of Islam — Page 126
New World Order 126 purposes, and without any coercion or violence the Islamic centre will, in the course of a generation, obtain control over 1/10th to 1/3rd of all private properties, and this fund could be devoted to the service of mankind. Nor must it be forgotten that this system is not confined only to one generation. Each succeeding generation is required to make similar sacrifice. The system being based upon the desire of those, who wish to win the pleasure of God, would apply to succeeding generations as much as to the present one. The second, third, and fourth generations will similarly go on handing over substantial portions of their properties to the centre, and in the course of three or four generations, the greater part of private property will be placed at the disposal of the centre. Assuming that the Movement were to spread over the whole of the world and to comprise the whole of mankind, the inevitable consequence of this system will be that within a few generations people will have handed over the whole of their property voluntarily and with pleasure to be devoted towards social ends. As under this system individual initiative and enterprise will have been safeguarded, people will all the time go on acquiring fresh property for themselves and their children and out of this property again they will voluntarily surrender from 1/10th to 1/3rd for social objects, and this process will go on repeating itself and will at each stage augment the social