Religion and Poverty

A Qur'anic Approach

Abstract

he very first day we visited a union office to understand issues of poverty in the USA. It was, indeed, moving to see so much poverty in the land of plenty. It was all along known that there is poverty in the USA, but it was a different thing to experience it in the field. We were taken to an office of the association of restaurant workers. We were told that more than 40,000 restaurant workers were rendered unemployed when the two world trade towers collapsed on 9/11 in which about three thousand people were killed.