• There are today more than fifty Muslim states, all claiming to have Islam as their religion and basic source of identity. All these nation states are constantly in a process of building and rebuilding in hopes of achieving the goals of development set by the West. These very goals are contradictory to the religion many have declared they have adopted as their state religion.

• Since the destruction of the Khilafah in 1924, the security within the Muslim world became absent, making Muslim countries exposed to invasion by global and regional powers, externally sponsored inter-Muslim fighting and drone bombing, making Muslim blood cheap.

Only to start with as a short reminder of what Islam’s main pillars in prevention of poverty are: -      Islam has regulated the issue of ownership in a very clear and efficient way. Every individual is permitted to gain and to possess private property on everything that is not public or not state property, through the ways that Islam has made permissible (work, trade, inheritance, gifts, etc.), i.e. except steeling,…

• Despite the immense material and human resources, as well as the world’s richest oil and mineral reserves in our Muslim lands, the majority of the Muslim Ummah languishes in massive poverty, having less than 1.90 US dollars a day to meet their basic needs.