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The objective of Islamic wealth management is economic justice through equitable distribution of wealth. This by no means restricts private ownership and entrepreneurship but a wider circulation of wealth and invested in socially beneficial economic activity. To serve social justice, wealth is not considered legitimately earned unless the risk-and-rewards are both shared in a financial contract: so one-sided no-risk-sharing contracts are not permitted. Islamic wealth management involves wealth generation, accumulation, preservation, purification and distribution. Creation of wealth is defined more broadly than in conventional practice. A set of filters are applied to financial transactions that ensure permissibility. Impermissible gains are expected to be distributed to the needy as a method of purification or cleansing. The process of cleansing applies in corporate finance and investment as well.