i have been banging on about investing within the muslim community and helping each other in business for a long time, but the fact is that our people have too much greed and also cannot bear to see other people doing well even if it does not take anything away from their wealth. by investing in the muslim community and helping each other we can only make ourselves stronger and the prosperity will be felt by all within the community inshallah. not so long ago i made a post about a trading system that some communities in the UK operate. the system works without money and cannot be taxed by the government. the system is untainted by the ribah based economy of the kuffar. the system is quite simple. rather than paying for services and goods using money which is subject to loss of value, the members of the system trade with services and goods that the government cannot tax and which do not lose value due to inflation. if we operate this system within our own communities then we will be making our own economy stronger and our whole community will prosper inshallah....but hardly anyone cared to explore this idea, which goes to show how much we care about each other. we only care about ourselves.