The Hidden Moral Framework of Modern Economics: The transition to a supposedly objective science concealed a deeply embedded secular moral framework. 1.Goal of Life: The pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain, as formulated by Bentham, remain central to modern economic +

Some book recommendations at the intersection of Islam, economics and finance 🧵

Most important of all,” wrote Erich Fromm about certain pre-capitalist cultures, “was the principle that society and economy exist for man, and not man for them. No economic progress was supposed to be healthy if it hurt any group within the society.” Insightful takes of Fromm.

Has not the time come when the world should have an unquestioning faith that none has the right to be worshipped except Allah?

Looking for insightful 'critiques of imperial feminism'—books, journals, articles, thinkers, or videos. Any recommendations? (All suggestions are welcomed.)

إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ (Indeed, we belong to Allah, and indeed, to Him we shall return.) My father has passed away. Please make du'a for his maghfirah and for Allah to grant him the highest levels of Jannah.

On this Day of Arafah, please include in your duas— The Palestinians & all distressed Muslims around the world. And my beloved father. May Allahﷻ forgive him completely, expand & illuminate his grave, protect him from its torment, &grant him Jannatul Firdaws without reckoning.

Al-Hasan al-Basri said: "Humility is for you to leave your home and believe that every Muslim you see is better than you." [Minhaj al-Qasidin by Ibn al-Jawzi, (vol. 2, p. 899)]

Your morality must be rooted in Islam, and in exchange for nothing shall you trade it for leniency.

"Surrender yourself: believe in preordainment, before pangs of anger and regret overwhelm you. Do not say. "Had I done such-and-such, such-and-such would have happened'; rather say, 'This is the decree of Allah, and what He wishes, He does."

O Allah, there is no ease other than what You make easy. If You please, You ease sorrow.

The nobility of a soul, its righteousness, pureness and superiority is in banishing any thought that holds no reality to it, and to never be satisfied that it should cross the mind and abstain from it.

"O Allah, set right my religion, which is the safeguard of my affairs; and set right my world, wherein is my living; and set right my next life, to which is my return, & make life for me an increase in all good and make death a relief for me from every evil."