According to western views, wealth is unambiguously good, and so human welfare is positive when wealth is in excess of … needs, and negative if it is less. Islam has a substantially more sophisticated view of the relation between wealth and … welfare. Excess wealth is a trial, which can bring great rewards if utilized correctly, and also bring great harm if utilized …

Ideas about Poverty and Wealth -- Overview of Climate Developments -- The Bereft and the Powerful: Greater Luhyia Concepts … of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century -- Gender and Honor: North Nyanza Concepts of Poverty and Wealth … through the Nineteenth Century -- Orphans and Livestock: Nilotic Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century …