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An Islamic Worldview

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If one person is killed in west, there is such a big hue and cry while millions die in Muslim countries and nobody cares as if their lives are not as precious as the lives of westerners. This discrimination violates the basic tenet of Islam that killing of one person is like killing of the whole humanity. — location: 214 ^ref-42233

is also an obligation for community responsibility where, if needs are not met, spending becomes obligatory for all. — location: 246 ^ref-42809

An important principle of Islam is the emphasis on the dignity of the poor. — location: 251 ^ref-25514

Their main failing is that they do not offer a coherent and integrated world view, which fits all historical, political, and technological developments into a unified perspective. — location: 396 ^ref-41349

this has led to a popular conception of history as being a history of rulers of states, or kings. — location: 470 ^ref-18282

It is sad that our own history textbooks, written in the post-Colonial period, do not present a picture of the worldwide struggle of Muslims against colonialism. — location: 486 ^ref-18245

In addition to stories of Muslim heroes (here again a start has been made by a number of biographies of Syed Ahmed Shaheed), we need to have a realistic history of colonialism. The flattering self-portrait of Western Civilization, with a depiction of colonization as a noble effort to spread the benefits of their advanced civilization to primitive peoples, needs to be questioned. — location: 488 ^ref-54594

Non-Muslim Struggles Against Oppression: Another category of literature and history, which needs to be assimilated into the Islamic worldview is the so-called postcolonial literature. — location: 503 ^ref-23696