The New World Order of Islam — Page 131
New World Order 131 properties and thus affected the propertied classes only, but those for whose benefit the system was instituted felt no elation at the thought that the property-owning members of the community were to be taxed for their sake. On the other hand, they felt distressed on the ground that they were not allowed to participate in this system, the reward of which was God’s pleasure and paradise. They approached the Promised Messiah as and requested him to devise some means by which they also should be allowed to participate in the system. Eventually, under divine direction he permitted them to contribute specified portions of their income for the same purpose. So that though in the beginning the system applied only to properties, at the request of those who owned no property it was extended to incomes, and thus a portion of current income, as well as property, began to flow into the common funds. 15 In short, the foundations of the New Order were not laid in Russia in 1910 or in any other country, nor will they be laid in future after the present war. As a matter of fact the New Order, which is designed to bring comfort and prosperity to every human being