In the West the national machinery of commerce and politics turns out neatly compressed bales of humanity which have their use and high market value; but they are bound in iron hoops, labeled and separated off with scientific care and precision. Obviously God made man to be human; but this modern product has such marvelous square-cut finish, savouring of gigantic manufacture, that the Creator will find it difficult to recognize it as a thing of spirit and a creature made in His own divine image.

[O]ur goal is the establishment of an Islamic welfare state. This was, in fact, the main goal of our freedom movement…. It will be a welfare state where there are no poor and destitutes, where the rich care for the poor in accordance with Islamic values, where elders have affection for the younger people, and the young folk respect their elders, where children obey their parents, where teachers provide proper guidance to the younger generation and students respect their teachers, where mosques are crowded with devotees, where the institutions of zakat is purposeful and well-established, where the deserving and the needy get zakat regularly…. We will wage jihad against poverty, parochialism, and ignorance.