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Difference Between Communism And Islam - nawaz - 12-07-2004
Dear All
Generally when people listend to the economic structure of Islam in
the light of pure Quranic definition then usually they mix it with the
economic system or values underlined by communism. Thus here i feel to
discuss difference between communism & islamic economic system. At
this point of time i am giving synopsis of what i have understood &
read through the understandings of other savant Islamic scholars.
Communism gives an economic system based on a particular philosophy of
life. In the same way Islam is not only a Social Order but also a Code
of Life, which deals with man as a whole and covers all aspects of
human life? Communistic philosophy sees Man just as a physical
being--nothing more nothing less--which ends with death,and provides
an economic system, which can cater only for his physical
welfare.Islam,on the other hand, views life as an uninterrupted and
ascending stream and man as possessing, besides his physical being, a
Self or
Personality capable of development and of living efficiently further
and on higher evolutionary planes of Life.The law governing
development of human Self, as enunciated by the Quran,has for its
basis the permanent value that by helping others a Self helps to
develop itself;although this is in ontradiction to the fact that the
development of man's physical being is possible only by helping
itself.Those convinced in Islamic ideology form themselves into a
society or a nucleus for crystallization of the ideology.The
responsibility for assuring every individual his basic needs of
life,physical as well as cultural,is shifted to the Society.The proper
discharge of its responsibility necessitates control on the resources
of production, creating thereby a healthy environment in which the
individual may be free to bring forth his utmost and to give his best
for the development of all humanity.Communistic philosophy of life and
the Islamic concept of life are,therefore diametrically opposed to
each other.In addition, it is the philosophy of life one believes in
which invokes motives, fixes the destiny and moulds the shape of the
society one builds.The fact is that the Islamic way of life is unique
and none of the other ways of life can be called Islamic.Nor can the
Islamic way of life be separated into parts,and a partial similarity
between one Islamic phase and a phase of some other system can make
the latter Islamic.The Islamic way is an indivisible whole like the
human body,breaking of which into separate parts would finish the body
itself.Quran chapter 2 Verse 85 is very clear on this point.Islam's
economic system is an integral part of the Islamic Deen (way of life)
and cannot be separated therefrom.
Regards
Nawaz