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Unity Beyond Sectarianism: The Monetary Roots of Religious Division and the Path to Unity

by Glenn Chin
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798199001274
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 140
  • Original Price: USD 7.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 168 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Comparative Religion

Why are Muslims divided? Why are the world's religions at war with each other? The standard answer points to theology - to ancient disputes over succession, doctrine, and the nature of divine authority. But this book proposes a more uncomfortable truth: the primary engine of religious disunity, across all traditions and all centuries, is not theology. It is the monetary system.

Money funds sectarian institutions. Money allows foreign powers to sponsor preferred sects and suppress disfavored ones. Money transforms mosques, churches, temples, and synagogues from houses of God into competitors in a marketplace of religious identity. When survival depends on funding, spiritual integrity yields to institutional survival - and genuine unity becomes impossible.

Drawing on the Qur'an as its primary criterion, Unity Beyond Sectarianism traces the monetary roots of Islamic division from the Umayyad corruption of the Bayt al-Mal to the colonial destruction of the waqf system to the contemporary weaponization of sectarian identity by geopolitical actors with financial interests in Muslim weakness. But it does not stop there.

This book argues that the Qur'an's economic vision - the Bayt al-Mal, zakat, waqf, the prohibition of riba, the condemnation of hoarding - points toward a moneyless sharing society that is not merely an Islamic ideal but a universal human one. Surveying Judaism's Jubilee year and tzedakah tradition, Christianity's koinonia and prophetic economic radicalism, Buddhism's 2,500-year moneyless sangha, Hinduism's dharma of dana and Gandhi's trusteeship theory, Taoism's economics of sufficiency, indigenous gift economy wisdom, and secular convergences including the Venus Project and Ubuntu Contributionism, the book demonstrates that every major human wisdom tradition independently arrives at the same conclusion: hoarding is a spiritual disease, resources belong to God, and the community's welfare takes precedence over individual accumulation.

We are not as different as money has made us appear.

The path to unity, this book argues, is not better interfaith dialogue but a return to the sharing institutions that all traditions prescribe: beginning with the Community Sharing Circle - a grassroots implementation of the Bayt al-Mal principle accessible to any family, any neighborhood, any committed group of believers willing to start sharing now.

A bold, original, and deeply researched work of Islamic da'wah for the entire human family.

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