Real Revolution — Page 152
152 properly observed. Hor instance the shariah demands that market rates and prices should be controlled in certain cases, in a certain manner. . Evidently no such thing can be done unless the teaching is being observed in the entire community as a whole in the form of an intelligent economic system based on the teaching of the Shariah 5. Another difficulty experienced by new. Movement is that those who are best qualified to lay the foundation, in practice, of the new order, are the early disciples of the Reformer. If the new order does not begin to emerge in the lifetime of these companions of the Reformer, people coming later do not have the same incentive or vision. 6. Over and above all this stands the fact that unless some sort of new order is brought into being, the old order cannot be done away with. . Unless people can see with their own eyes some superior system in being, it never begins to occur to them that they need to get rid of the old, or that they have any alternative at all, even when they generally have begun to feel uneasy on the score of the old system to which they have been used. Another danger involved is that without developing an order of their own the members of the Movement themselves run the risk of being reabsorbed into the old order which needs to be replaced.