This book delves deep into the issue of poverty from a thorough and clear Islamic perspective. Particularly, the author aims to present the concept of poverty in the "normative" (as it ought to be) way and (further) enquires whether the much ado about the "poverty conundrum" or (a) state of poverty at least for a Muslim is justified. In other words, is poverty (the absence of material supplies) as widely seen today really an abysmal condition, or is it the real or true poverty as represented by the Qur'ān (Allah) and (Sunnah) His Messenger (PBUH) really the poverty worth focusing on? Without adequately understanding what poverty is, there cannot be effective therapeutic interventions. Employing scriptural evidence vis-à-vis (Islamic) legal reasoning, it is advanced throughout the book that normative poverty is the actual (real) poverty and not poverty (positive or material poverty) as it is pervasively seen today. Ultimately, the book proffers panacea to poverty