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temporary measures and short-term projects, yet such feeble measures
lacking insight produce no results.
At this point, people really require rapid and workable solutions that
address actual needs. Today, poverty-stricken countries receive large
amounts of food aid. Yet, most of these serve no good as they are simply
made for show-purposes and are inconsistent with the needs of famine
sufferers. Alternatively, being delayed, or due to interruptions within the

Today in some countries,
truckloads of vegetables and fruits
are discharged on to wastelands.
Yet, the fact remains that, around
the planet, there are millions living
on the bread-line. The rational
allocation of world resources could
prevent extravagance while saving
starving people in different areas of
the world.
… Eat of their fruits when they
bear fruit and pay their due on
the day of their harvest, and do
not be profligate. He (Allah)
does not love the profligate.
(Surat al-An'am: 141)