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The Mahdi Economy
Why Divine Justice Requires the End of Money
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Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35480622
EAN: 9798188534493
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Zustellung: Di, 13.10.2026
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Beschreibung
Every Islamic tradition awaits the Mahdi. Almost every discussion of his coming focuses on justice - honest courts, punished oppressors, a wronged world set right. Far less attention goes to the other half of the same promise, repeated across the hadith literature just as often: abundance. Wealth given without being counted. Provision flowing from earth and sky in a way the age of oppression had withheld. This book takes that second promise as seriously as the first - and asks a question rarely asked directly: what kind of economy could actually produce abundance like that. The answer, argued across forty chapters grounded in the Qur'an, hadith, and the Bank of England's own explanation of how money is created, is direct and, this book argues, exclusive: no other economic system - not the present monetary system however justly administered, not capitalism, not socialism, not a return to the gold standard or barter, not any Islamic finance product built to comply with riba's legal form while leaving its structural engine untouched - can produce the uncounted abundance the Mahdi's era describes. Only a genuinely moneyless architecture, built from the Qur'an's own economic institutions, can. This book makes that case directly, chapter by chapter, ruling out each alternative before building the one it argues actually works - including a direct historical example of why simply changing what currency is made of (gold, silver, or fiat) never solves the underlying problem: sixteenth-century Spain's flood of New World silver produced inflation, not abundance, because the scarcity was never about the metal. Inside, you'll find:. A careful, non-technical explanation of how modern money is actually created - and why that mechanism guarantees scarcity regardless of how generously the system is administered. A systemic reading of riba - not as a rule about individual transactions, but as a description of the entire debt-money architecture the Qur'an declares a war from Allah. The Qur'an's own economic alternative: khilafah (wealth as trust, not property), harvest-triggered zakat, the prohibition of hoarding, Bayt al-Mal, muakhat, waqf, and sadaqah - traced directly to the text, with Ali ibn Abi Talib's own conduct as caliph offered as historical illustration. A complete, achievable practical program: the Community Sharing Circle - two to five families sharing food, skills, and mutual commitment today - extending through federated networks toward a genuine post-monetary community. A direct statement on money in the present: using currency now is a pragmatic necessity, not a compromise of principle. The objective is the long-run, total elimination of currency-mediated exchange - a horizon the Prophet's ﷺ own community moved toward while still using coined currency in its external trade. An honest treatment of the Dajjal's economy of allegiance-gated provision, sharpened by contemporary central bank digital currency proposals, set against the Mahdi's economy of unconditional abundance. This is not a work of prediction. It makes no claim about when the Mahdi will return, and treats every such claim with the caution the Qur'an itself counsels. What it asks is simpler and more urgent: if the promised abundance requires the end of debt-money, what does that mean for how you spend the years before that return - waiting, or building. Bring your own Qur'an. Check every claim. Begin today.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Glenn Chin
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 220