In Ibn Khaldun's Prolegomenon, it is stated that the three central layers of society are:
1. The ruling elite (with its infrastructure);
2. The noblemen, i.e. the aristocracy of rank and prestige and the aristocracy of knowledge and spirituality;
3. The merchants.
Of these three, he emphasized, the layer with the worst ingrained character, the one thus to be worked on from an Islamic perspective the most, was that of the merchants.
If, in the confrontational vicissitudes involving the men of the sword (aristocracy), the men of the money, the men of the work, and the men of knowledge, the second group (the merchants) has emerged as the sole repository of power and influence, subjugating the others. This global triumph of the men of the money (the homo economicus) is the hallmark of modernity, and the worst age unleashed into planetary history. Not surprisingly, it is the age that will culminate in the emergence of the Dajjal.
The worldwide hegemony of the United States and the homo economicus theory perfected its idea of management, the MBA initiation and the corporations. Russia, China, India, and other nations have replicated this in their own style; and all became rivals in the same game. This means that the key to revival of the Deen al-Islam is the transcendence of the homo economicus ideology. Only the genuinely homo Islamicus, a humanity radically different from the currently enthroned artist of the algorithm, can bring that about.
That homo Islamicus would tap into the Divine Names and Attributes, assimilating part of them into his being, achieving closeness to Allah, al-Wahhab, in His endless and abundant giving. This is a sure and impenetrable barrier and antidote to the malignant metamorphosis of the merchant into bourgeoisie and capitalist finance.