This "core critique" is part of the problem. The west suffers from a paradoxical aversion to markets and technology. This has manifested across ideologies like marxism, socialism, and certain strains of right-wing thought. Through the lens of the Quran and the stories of the prophets a clearer diagnosis is: the root problem lies in disbelief in God (lack of trust and "tasleem" in God and instead allegiance to Taghut—the coercive tyrant, the state, or self-wirship of the individual عبادة الذات . These problems have reached the islamic world through emulating of the west.