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Alhamdulillah, all praises due to Allah, the one and the unique.

He is whom we worship, and it is His aid that we seek.

He fashioned Adam from clay and taught man how to speak, and He saved mankind from the

flood by causing north arc to rest on Mount Jude's peak.

So to Him alone belongs all glory, for He has no partner nor any sherik.

As to what follows, know that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has reminded us to be conscious

of Him when He says in the Quran,

Dear Muslims, one of the most famous economists of the last century of our own life

times, Milton Friedman, a name every single student of economics knows.

He actually received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work.

He is one of the strongest proponents of Western capitalism.

One of the points that this mind that is considered to be one of the intellectual geniuses of our

generation made, one of the points that he brought up was that we need to, according

to him, destigmatize greed.

He said there is nothing wrong with being greedy, in and of itself.

Greed, he said, is the driving force of economic growth.

Another senior analyst of Wall Street, somebody who became famous because he was involved

in the 2008 Wall Street crash, and in fact the movie was made about him.

He famously remarked,

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

Greed is right.

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