Dr. Clark particularly stressed the necessity of diligence and abstinence in achieving this, reflecting a Puritan mentality whereby people commit themselves to secular occupations and believe in the grace of God.
Today's crisis, even with its serious implications for people's lives, can also provide us with a fruitful opportunity to rediscover the virtues of prudence, temperance, justice and strength.
But that vision must include a reassessment of what can be found in traditional cultures, such as modesty, restraint and frugality, or a concern for the ecosystem and for future generations.
Those Muslim heretics who have followed the non-Islamic practice of abstention and hermitage, or who have at least claimed to have taken an even more pious path to God than the Prophets themselves, have similarly succumbed to these same vices and to an equally scandalous degree.
They have, indeed, spent all their energies in solving the problem either of waiting or abstinence or productivity or"labour value" or"the determination of value" and have not said anything about the origin or the justification of the institution of interest.[9] Footnotes:[1] Virtually any textbook on the history of economic thought provides an analysis of the justifications of interest as well as their critiques.
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