Summary of Sunni concepts Islam's view of money Money in Islam is God's money He gave sustenance to some of His servants And his appreciation for each other God Almighty said Your Lord extends sustenance to whomever He wills and determines Indeed, He was All-Aware and All-Seeing of His servants It is not for those to whom God has extended sustenance Absolute freedom in the money God has given him Rather, he has duties in it by virtue of his being a successor in it There is no real owner of it God Almighty said And spend from what made you successors in it And the Almighty said And give them some of the wealth of God that He has given you God is the owner of the money He has imposed a measure of it on categories of His servants It will be delivered to them by whomever God has placed his hand on And so he really named them As God Almighty said And give the kin his due, and the poor and the wayfarer God concluded the verse about disbursing zakat by saying: An obligation from God And God is All-Knowing, All-Wise The economic outlook in Islam It is based on the fact that as long as money is God’s money He is therefore subject to everything God decides about him Considering money as his first Both in the way it is earned and owned Or in the way it is developed Or the way it is spent The person who seizes the money is not free to do with it whatever he wants As it claims, licentious and brutal capitalism