Allah wants you to be rich: foundations of Muslim career development in al-Ghazālī's Iḥyā’ ‘Ulūm al-Dīn

• Main Authors: Ssekamanya, Siraje Abdallah, Badzis, Mastura, Ismail, Khamsiah
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: IIUM Press 2017
• Subjects: BF636 Applied psychology; LB Theory and practice of education; LC Special aspects of education
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/62435/1/06%20DR.%20SSEKAMANYA.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/62435/7/62435_Allah%20wants%20you%20to%20be%20rich_scopus.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/62435/

While Muslims comprise about a quarter of the world population, they control far less than 25% of global wealth. With few exceptions, Muslim countries are among the poorest in the world. To make things worse, Muslim preachers tend to justify this status quo by teaching that Allah prefers Muslims...