人类的天性决定了他要通过劳动来满足自身的需求，并为满足这些需求而拥有财产，因此他会努力去获取这些财产。满足人的需求是一件不可避免的事情，人无法停止对它的追求。除了是人性的一部分之外，人获取财富也因此成为一件不可避免的事情。任何阻止人拥有财富的企图都与他的天性相悖，任何将他的占有限制在某一定量的企图同样与人性相悖。因此，阻挡人去获取财富，或阻挡他为达成这一获取所做的努力，都是违背自然的。

It is part of man’s nature to work so as to satisfy his needs and to possess property in order to satisfy these needs and accordingly to strive for this possession. Satisfying man’s needs is an inevitable matter that man cannot desist from. In addition to being part of man’s nature, man’s acquisition of wealth is thus an inevitable matter. Any attempt to prevent man from possessing wealth would be contradictory to his nature and any attempt to restrict his possession to a certain quantity would also be contradictory to human nature. It would, therefore, be unnatural to stand between man and his acquisition of wealth, or to stand between Him and his efforts to achieve this acquisition.

然而，这种对财富的获取不应任由人去随心所欲地争取、追求或处置，因为那样会产生恶行与腐败，导致无政府状态和混乱。由于人们在能力和满足需求的程度上存在差异，这一结果是不可避免的。如果任其自便，只有强者才会获得财富，弱者则会被剥夺；病弱和无能力者将陷于困顿，而贪婪者则会过度攫取。因此，让人们获取财富并努力争取，必须以一种能够保证全体人民基本需求得到满足的方式进行。同时，它还应保证人们有可能满足获取奢侈品的欲望。因此，必须将这种获取限定在一种具体的方式之内，这种方式应当简明易行，使所有人无论能力和需求如何不同，都能够获得。这种方式还应符合人性，从而满足基本需求，并使人们能够实现其奢侈的追求。由此，所有权的性质必须加以确定，并且必须抵制废除所有权的主张，因为这与人性相悖。同样，也必须抵制将所有权限定于特定数量的做法，因为这会限制人追求财富的努力，从而与其天性相违。所有权的绝对自由同样应当加以限制，因为它会引发恶行与腐败，造成人与人之间关系的混乱。伊斯兰允许个人拥有财产，并依据人性来规定获取财产的方式，而不是规定其数量。伊斯兰还规范了人与人之间的关系，从而使人能够满足其全部需求。

This acquisition should not, however, be left to man to achieve, strive for, or dispose of as He wishes, as this would cause evil and corruption resulting in anarchy and disorder. This is inevitable due to the disparity between people in their abilities and in their needs for satisfaction. If they were left to their own devices, only the strong would acquire the wealth and the weak would be deprived of it; the sick and the incapable would perish and the greedy would be excessive. Enabling the people to acquire wealth and strive to achieve it must therefore proceed in a way that guarantees the satisfaction of the basic needs for all the people. It should also guarantee the possibility of people being able to satisfy their desire to acquire luxuries. It would, therefore, be imperative to confine this acquisition to a specific method, in which simplicity is achieved, so as to make the acquisition within reach of all people despite the disparity in their abilities and their needs. This method would also conform to human nature so as to satisfy the basic needs and enable people to fulfil their luxuries. It would thus be imperative for the ownership to be determined in quality and to resist the abolition of ownership, as this contradicts human nature. It is also necessary to resist the confinement of ownership to specific quantities, as this restricts man’s striving to acquire wealth, thus contradicting his nature. The freedom of ownership should also be challenged as it causes evil and corruption resulting in chaotic relationships between people. Islam allows individual ownership and defines its method rather than its quantity, in accordance with human nature. It also organised the relationships between people and thus enabled man to satisfy all of his needs.