It is my great pleasure to welcome you all this morning and to offer a prelude to our important international seminar on Islamic Capital Markets. The word “Seminar”, Seminarium, derives from the Greek work for seed – semen – and thus our task is the spreading of seeds.
At our meeting, God willing, these seeds are for a fresh garden for the world freed from the perils past, and very present, in which the now-globalised economies of the world have been put at such grave risk by mistaken systems of management of global financial and capital assets.