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TIME, August 05, 2002 The basic reason for social injustice
and its consequent gap between the
rich and the poor is that the moral
teaching of the Qur’an is not followed.
Unesco Courier, March 11, 1999

Khaleej Times, March 11, 2002

In the world today, poverty has reached grave proportions.
The last report by UNICEF stated that one in four people of the
world’s population lives in “unimaginable suffering and want.” 10
1.3 billion of the world’s people survive on less than $1 a day. 3 bil-
lion people in the world today struggle to survive on $2 a

day. Approximately 1.3 billion people lack safe water. 2.6 billion
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people are without access to adequate sanitation. 12
According to the report by the United Nations Food and

Agriculture Organization (FAO), for the year 2000, 826 million
people around the world do not get enough to eat. In other words,
one in six people are hungry. 13

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