Imagine a nation where every hospital is free of cost irrespective to your status, caste, gender, religion, nationality. A multi-speciality hospital providing you a clothes, well furnished wards, delicious food, specialized doctors, that too free of cost. Not just this even giving the patient money and food as a compensation for being out of work during his hospital stay. Isn't it mind-blowing?? This is what hospitals were in the Islamic Civilization. In early medieval where Europe belief that illness is supernatural, uncontrollable, incurable. Muslims took completely different approach because of the saying of prophet Muhammadﷺ, “God has sent down the disease and he has appointed cure for every disease, so treat yourself medically”(¹) Mobile Dispensaries The first known Islamic care center was set up in a tent by Rufaydah al-Aslamiyah r.a during the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammadﷺ. Famously, during the Ghazwah Khandaq, she treated the wounded in a separ...
In this article, I will thoroughly go through the problems in the current economic system and if there is any way out of these problems. Currently, there are only two known systems in the world: capitalism and socialism. Both of these systems have some unsolvable problems in today's reality like, Inflation, fiscal deficits, unemployment, poverty, etc. In capitalism, you've inequality, income disparity, exploitation of people, economic crisis, etc. In socialism, there are problems like lack of innovation, economic stagnation, corruption, high dependence on government, lack of incentives, etc. There is one more economic system that is better than any other system in this world, “The Islamic economic system”. As I progress through this article I'll explain how the Islamic system solves all of the problems that this corrupt system has created and how this is the true system of justice. Islamic Economic system as an alternative: Islam is a global order, Islam is an ecosystem, a...