Look, my workers, I have some capital which by itself
cannot produce anything, because a dead thing cannot produce
anything. I have nothing productive without labor.

As it goes, I cannot benefit from consuming it
unproductively, since having consumed it, I would be left
with nothing. But thanks to the social and political
institutions which rule over us and are all in my favor, in
the existing economy my capital is supposed to be a producer
as well:

it earns me interest.

From whom this interest must be taken – and it must be
from someone, since in reality by itself it produces
absolutely nothing – this does not concern you. It is enough
for you to know that it renders interest. Alone this
interest is insufficient to cover my expenses. I am not an
ordinary man as you. I cannot be, nor do I want to be,
content with little. I want to live, to inhabit a beautiful
house, to eat and drink well, to ride in a carriage, to
maintain a good appearance, in short, to have all the good
things in life. I also want to give a good education to my
children, to make them into gentlemen, and send them away to
study, and afterwards, having become much more educated than
you, they can dominate you one day as I dominate you today.
And as education alone is not enough, I want to give them a
grand inheritance, so that divided between them they will be
left almost as rich as I. Consequently, besides all the good
things in life I want to give myself, I also want to
increase my capital. How will I achieve this goal? Armed
with this capital I propose to exploit you, and I propose
that you permit me to exploit you. You will work and I will
collect and appropriate and sell for my own behalf the
product of your labor, without giving you more than a
portion which is absolutely necessary to keep you from dying
of hunger today, so that at the end of tomorrow you will
still work for me in the same conditions; and when you have
been exhausted, I will throw you out, and replace you with
others. Know it well, I will pay you a salary as small, and
impose on you a working day as long, working conditions as
severe, as despotic, as harsh as possible; not from
wickedness – not from a motive of hatred towards you, nor an
intent to do you harm – but from the love of wealth and to
get rich quick; because the less I pay you and the more you
work, the more I will gain.”

This is what is said implicitly
by every capitalist, every industrialist, every business
owner, every employer who demands the labor power of the
workers they hire.

I agree with that and contemplate this often.

Mashallah, thank you for bringing our attention to another great post brother Suhaib.

Omar
(http://www.rawwealth.com)

Personal thoughts on this are, there are many leaders out there or people in the background doing some amazing work. Unfortunately they do not get our backing because we have “issues” with them. I just think we all get deluded thinking if Malcom (r) was around today then …… and if so and so was around today then…… It just doesn't work like that. Maybe Allah (swt) put those people on earth and took them back in the times that they were here so they wouldn't have to put up with people/haters like us. Just my thoughts on this matter. Sorry for the rant.

I can see why immigrant Muslim movements like Tableehgi Jamaat are always running after young brothers to join them and carry it. I don't think they want it to be a “desi” jamaat, they want it to be an effective jamaat…and perhaps, more converts could lay the ground for that?

What is REALLY needed for both converts and immigrants, is a curriculum of learning Islam- one that is ordered and detailed, so that both can come to common ground. Haphazard learning of islam, via random lectures might seem good, but it also creates that disconnect. That is probably why Malcolm X (rahimullah) and Co. were so successful, because they taught their followers systematically, everyone was on the same page and everybody can move forward together. Additionally, their message was focused and less varied then that of our communities.