The Importance of Understanding Islam

In Shallah, we want to talk about Islam as a comprehensive and very distinctive way of life. It has very clear rules, laws unlike socialism, and it has a true market based on sound, unchanging rule of law that is not open to exploitation and corruption like we see in capitalism. So let's look at the first section, which is on alleviating poverty. Before I talk about this hadith, I want to start with an example, story of Abu Bakr Sadiq, the first Khaleith in Islam. And Omar ibn al-Khatab used to notice that Abu Bakr used to go in a different direction from his home every morning, early in the day.