Here in the worlds of a contemporary muslim: „I have often wondered why the Israelites in the time of Nabi Musa (Peace be upon him) were so dumb as to worship a golden calf created with their own hands. Looking at our own lives today and at the amount of time, love and energy that we devote to our stone idol (the house), to our metal idol (the car), or to our paper gods (the share certificates), it is no longer so strange that the Israelites, whom Musa led out of the darkness of oppression to the light of liberation, should fall for gimmicks. The difference is, of course, that Samiri, the initiator of the calf-idol idea, acted naively and in isolation. The idols of capitalism and consumerism today are created by a whole class of people whose lives rotate around little other than exploitation for profit.“ (Farid Esack: On Being a Muslim. Finding a religious path in the world today. Oxford (Oneworld) 1999, S. 104)