Kitap Bölümü Büyüme/Kalkınma/Refah 1980

The islamic welfare state and its role in the economy

  • Kodu: 6328
  • Eserin Orjinal İsmi: The islamic welfare state and its role in the economy
  • Türü: Kitap Bölümü
  • Alan: Büyüme/Kalkınma/Refah
  • Konu(lar): İslami Refah, Ekonomi
  • Dili: İngilizce
  • Yayın Yılı: 1980
  • Kitap Ismi: Studies in Islamic Economics
  • Yayın Yeri: Jeddah
  • Yayınevi: International Centre for Research in Islamic Economics, King Abdulaziz Univesity and the Islamic Foundation, U.K.
  • Sayfa Aralığı: 143-170
  • Keywords: Islamic Welfare, Economy
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: İslami Refah, Ekonomi
  • Açıklama: This paper seeks’ to examine the interrelationship between the economic and political context of the Islamic way of life and discusses the functions and nature of the Islamic state in the light of its basic imperatives within the framework of financial constraints. It is argued that the Islamic way of life, being goal-oriented, is conceivahie without an organised community governed in accordance with the tenets of Islam. Then the paper examines some of the essential economic functions which the Islamic welfare state is expected to perform. They are as follows: 1. to eradicate poverty and create conditions for full employment; 2. to promote stability in the real value of money; 3. to ensure social and economic justice through equitable distribution of income; 4. to maintain law and order; and 5. harmonise international relations and ensure national defence. However, the paper concludes by saying that although capitalism also recognises freedom of the individual, there are no spiritual constraints on this freedom. The constraints that do exist are determined primarily by the pressures of competition or the coercive power of the state, and secondarily by changing social norms without any spiritual sanctity. In an Islamic system, however, the individual is subject to involvable spiritual values in all aspects of life, including the acquisition, spending and distribution of wealth. Islam normally recognises, like capitalism, the freedom of enterprise with the institution of private property, the market system and the profit motive, but it differs from capitalism because property in Islam is a trust from God and man as trustee and vicegerent of God is responsible to Him and subject to His guiding principles. Although both socialism and capitalism recognises equitable dis- tribution of income, in capitalism this recognition is again an outcome of group pressure while in socialism it is accompanied by negation of individual freedom. Islam achieves this equitable distribution within the framework of individual freedom but with spiritual and legal imperatives to safeguard public interest, moral constraints against 7 unearned income, and social obligations to ensure a just distribution of income and wealth. The Islamic welfare state is hence neither capitalistic nor socialis- tic. It is based on its own values and guided by its own goals. It has its own identity and bears no resemblance to any other form of state.
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