人天性使然,需要通过劳作来满足自身需求,并拥有财产以满足这些需求,因此会努力去获取这些财产。满足人的需要是不可避免的事情,人无法停止这种追求。因此,除了是人性的一部分之外,人获取财富也是必然的事情。任何阻止人拥有财富的企图都与其天性相悖,任何将其拥有的财富限制在一定数量之内的做法同样违背人性。因此,阻挡人获取财富,或阻挡他为获取财富所付出的努力,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，这种获取不应任由人去实现、追求或随意支配，否则将导致罪恶与腐败，进而引发无政府状态和混乱。由于人们在能力及满足需求方面存在差异，这一点是必然的。若任其自便，只有强者会获得财富，弱者则被剥夺；病弱无能者将走向灭亡，贪婪者则会过度攫取。因此，让人们获取财富并努力追求，必须以保证所有人基本需求得到满足的方式进行。同时，还应保证人们能够满足获取奢侈品的欲望。所以，必须将这种获取限定在某种特定的方式之内，并在其中实现简便，使所有人无论能力和需求如何差异，都能够触及这种获取。这种方式还应符合人性，既满足基本需求，又使人们能够实现其奢侈的追求。因此，所有权必须在性质上加以界定，并抵制取消所有权的做法，因为那与人性相违背。同时，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，从而与其天性相矛盾。所有权的绝对自由同样应当受到质疑，因为它会导致罪恶与腐败，造成人与人之间关系的混乱。伊斯兰允许个人所有权，并依据人性来规定其获取的方式，而非其数量。伊斯兰也规范了人与人之间的关系，从而使人能够满足其一切需求。

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.