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The Quran's picture of what we're supposed to do with wealth is to build more for a greater objective.

For the benefit of humanity, for the bringing about of justice, for the bringing about of the end of corruption, the end of being looted and robbed and killed it, killed without purpose.

Inna, ya'ajouja and w'ajujo Mufsiduna in the earth.

That's the idea.

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Where does value come from? Where does value come from? What is my value as a person?

Nowadays, if you Wikipedia or somebody, they'll say their estimated net worth is so on, so and so, so forth. So how is humanity

valuing other human beings? By a monetary number. Or in the world of social media, the younger

generation might say, what's the value of this person? How many followers do they have? As an influencer,

oh, this person has 26 million followers. That's a higher value. This person has 400 followers.

They don't have much value. This person has 13 followers. They're barely human. Right? Because your

value comes from some kind of currency. You have to take something non-living that's associated with you for you to have value.

So your value is not actually coming from you.

It's coming from stuff.

Or it's coming from accomplishments.

Again, those are non-living.

Titles, degrees, accomplishments, history, family, family background, that's giving you value, right?

Your credentials are giving you value.

Your, the inscription of, you know, some elite status, like you belong to the royal family,

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