We live in a world, today, that is quite different from that of the centuries past when the Qur’an was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (SAW). That is the main cause of the high rate of crimes witnessed around the world today and the entailed short life span for those youths. However, the refusal by today’s youths to heed that warning and the aggressive greed of the privileged elders in power constitute the main cause of restiveness and insurrection around the world today. In Islam, desperation for accumulation of wealth is prohibited because it encourages a focus on the end result rather than the means and its entailed immorality. If desperation ever had any role to play in accumulating wealth, perhaps Nigeria would have long become a country in penury.