因此，只关注经济商品能否满足需要，而不顾社会应当是什么样子，这就是把经济商品从人际关系中剥离出来，这是不自然的。经济商品在人们之间交换，从而形成彼此之间的关系，而这些关系构成了社会，所以在考虑经济商品时，应当察觉它对社会所产生的影响。因此，仅仅因为有人喜欢某物就认为它有益，是不正确的；无论它本身是否有害，无论它是否影响人与人之间的关系，无论它在社会民众的信仰中是被禁止还是被允许，都不应如此认定。相反，只有在符合社会应当成为什么样子的前提下确实有益的事物，才应被视为有益。
因此，把大麻、鸦片及类似之物视为有益的商品，并仅仅因为有人需要它们就将其当作经济商品，是错误的。相反，在考虑事物是否有益，即是否将其视为经济商品时，必须考虑这些经济商品对社会中人与人之间关系的影响。事物应当结合社会应当成为什么样子来看待。仅仅就事物本身来看待它，而不顾社会应当是什么样子，是错误的。
经济学家把满足需要的主题纳入满足需要之手段的主题之中，并且仅仅将满足需要的手段视为满足某种需要，而不加其他任何考虑，因此他们更注重财富的生产而非财富的分配。分配财富以满足需要的重要性已退居次要地位。因此，资本主义经济制度只有一个目标，即增加国家的整体财富，并努力达到尽可能高的生产水平。 它认为，社会成员达到可能的最高福利水平，将依靠提高国民收入来实现，而提高国民收入则依靠提升国内的生产水平，同时让个人能够获取财富，即让他们自由地从事生产并拥有财富。因此，经济并不是为了满足个体的需要，也不是为了促进社会中每一个个体的需要得到满足，而是专注于增加能够满足个体需要的东西，也就是通过提高生产水平和增加国家的国民收入来满足社会的需要。随着国民收入的可得，社会成员之间的收入分配便通过占有自由和劳动自由而实现。于是，个人可以依据自己所拥有的生产要素，各自尽其所能地获取财富，至于是所有人还是只有部分人得到满足，则听其自然。这就是政治经济学，即资本主义经济。这种观点显然是错误的，与现实相悖：它既不能提高所有个人的生活水平，也无法实现每个人的基本福利。这一观点的谬误在于，需要得到满足的需求是个体的需求，是人的需求；它们是穆罕默德、萨利赫和哈桑的需求，而不是一群人、一群民族或一群人群的需求。努力满足自身需要的是个体，无论他是直接满足，如饮食，还是通过整个群体的满足来间接满足，如保卫国家。因此，经济问题的核心在于分配个体满足需要的手段，即…… 国家或民族成员之间的资金与利益分配,应当着眼于该民族或人民所需要的基本需求,而不是不顾国家内每个个体的需要。换言之,问题在于个人所遭受的贫困,而非国家所遭受的贫困。经济制度所关注的,只应是满足每个个体的基本需求,而不是研究如何生产经济商品。因此,研究影响国民生产规模的各种因素,与研究如何全面、彻底地满足每个人的全部基本需求,是两回事。研究的主题应当是人作为人的基本需求,以及如何分配社会财富以保障社会成员的所有基本需求得到满足。这应当是首要的研究对象。
此外,解决一个国家的贫困问题,并不等于逐个解决个人的贫困问题。相反,针对个人贫困问题的治理,以及在他们之间分配国家财富,能够激励全国人民努力工作,增加国民收入。影响生产规模和国民收入增长的因素,应当作为经济科学来讨论,即在讨论经济商品及其增长时加以探讨,而不应放在本由经济制度所调节的需求满足问题中讨论。
资本主义者声称,任何社会面临的经济问题,是商品与服务的稀缺。他们还主张,需求不断增长,而又无法全部满足,即商品与服务不足以完全满足人的所有需要,才是经济问题的根源。这种观点是错误的,实际上也与现实相矛盾。 这是因为必须满足的需要,是个人作为人所具有的基本需要(食物、住所和衣着),而不是奢侈品,尽管人们也会追求奢侈品。人的基本需要是有限的,世界上存在的被称为商品和服务的资源与努力,确实足以满足人的基本需要;完全满足全人类的所有基本需要是可能的。因此,抛开把它视为社会所面临的经济问题不谈,基本需要本身并不存在问题。实际上,经济问题在于如何分配这些资源与努力,使每个人都能完全满足所有基本需要,然后再帮助他们努力获取奢侈品。
So caring for the economic commodity with respect to its fulfilling a need, without caring for what the society should be, is a detachment of the economic commodity from the relationship, which is unnatural. This economic commodity is exchanged among the people thereby creating relationships among them, and the relationships form the society, so the effect on society should be perceived when considering the economic commodity. Therefore, it is incorrect to consider a thing as beneficial just because there is somebody who likes it, whether it is itself harmful or not, and whether it affects the relationships among people or not, and whether it is prohibited or permitted in the belief of the people in the society. Rather things should be considered beneficial if they are really beneficial in respect of what the society should be. Therefore, it is incorrect to consider cannabis, opium and the like as beneficial commodities and to consider them economic commodities just because there is somebody who wants them. Instead, the effect of these economic commodies on the relationships between people in society must be considered when considering the benefit of things i.e. when considering the thing as an economic commodity or not. Things should be viewed in relation to what the society should be. It is wrong to look at a thing merely as it is, regardless of what the society should be. By including the subject of satisfying the needs within the subject of the means of satisfying needs, and by viewing the means of satisfaction only as satisfying a need, and not by any other consideration, economists concentrate on production of wealth more than distribution of wealth. The importance of distribution of wealth to satisfy the needs has become secondary. Therefore, the capitalist economic system has one aim, which is to increase the country’s wealth as a whole, and it works to arrive at the highest possible level of production. It considers that the achievement of the highest possible level of welfare for the members of society will come as a result of increasing the national income by raising the level of production in the country, and in enabling individuals to take the wealth, as they are left free to work in producing and possessing it. So the economy does not exist to satisfy the needs of the individuals and to facilitate the satisfaction of every individual in the community, rather it is focused on the augmentation of what satisfies the needs of the individuals i.e. it is focused on satisfying the needs of the community by raising the level of production and increasing the national income of the country. Through the availability of the national income, the distribution of income among the members of society occurs, by means of freedom of possession and freedom of work. So it is left to the individuals to obtain what they can of the wealth, everyone according to what He has of its productive factors, whether all the individuals or only some individuals are satisfied. This is the political economy i.e. the capitalist economy. This is manifestly wrong, and contradicts reality; it does not lead to an improvement in the level of livelihood for all individuals, and does not fulfil the basic welfare of every individual. The erroneous aspect in this view is that the needs which require satisfaction are individual needs, they are needs of a man; so they are needs for Muhammad, Salih and Hasan and not needs for a group of human beings, a group of nations, or a group of people. The one who strives to satisfy his needs is the individual, whether He satisfies them directly such as eating, or He satisfies them through the satisfaction of the whole group such as the defence of the nation. Therefore, the economic problem is focused on distributing the means of satisfaction for individuals i.e. the distribution of the funds and benefits to the members of the nation or people, not on the needs which the nation or the people require without regard to every individual within the nation. In other words, the problem is the poverty which befalls the individual not the poverty which befalls the nation. The concern of the economic system must only be in satisfying the basic needs of every individual, not the study of producing economic commodity. Consequently, the study of the factors that affect the size of national production differs from the study for satisfying all the basic needs of all individuals personally and completely. The subject of study must be the basic human needs of man, as a human being, and the study of distributing the wealth to the members of society to guarantee the satisfaction of all their basic needs. This should be the subject of study, and should be undertaken in the first place. Moreover, the treatment of the poverty of a country does not solve the problem of poverty for individuals, individually. Rather, the treatment of the poverty problems of the individuals, and the distribution of the wealth of the country among them, motivates all the people of the country to work in increasing the national income. The study of factors that affect the size of production and the increase of the national income, should be discussed as economic science, that is, in the discussion of the economic commodity and its increase, rather than in the discussion of satisfying the needs, which are regulated by the economic system. The Capitalists claim that the economic problem which faces any society is the scarcity of commodities and services. They also claim that the steadily increasing needs, and the inability to satisfy all of them i.e. the insufficiency of commodities and services to satisfy all of man’s needs completely, is the basis of the economic problem. This view is erroneous and in fact contradicts with reality. This is because the needs which must be met are the basic needs of the individual as a human (food, shelter and clothing), and not the luxuries, although they too are sought. The basic needs of humans are limited, and the resources and the efforts which they call the commodities and services existent in the world are certainly sufficient to satisfy the basic human needs; it is possible to satisfy all of the basic needs of mankind completely. So, there is no problem in the basic needs, quite apart from considering it the economic problem that faces society. The economic problem is, in reality, the distribution of these resources and efforts enabling every individual to satisfy all basic needs completely, and after that helping them to strive for attaining their luxuries.