There
are many different ways to insure some social rights for people in the economic
side, and to make the equality more efficiency between them in distribution
& redistribution of wealth in way that all people of nation feel by
equality and justice. I don’t mean to distribute and give to anybody a certain amount
of money “NO”, but according to specified rules and for people who really
deserve we can guarantee a certain positive results after a while. We always
need to discover the world and learn from experiences of different nations –
useful experiences – to choose the best for applying them in life as models,
today I want to talk about one mechanism in the same context (redistribution of
wealth) and share you the information which i know about, it isn’t just a
theory but it’s existing in fact.
“AZ-ZAKAH” it’s the first organized
system in history devoted to realise this purpose, it is not just a way to make
charity, but it’s an obligation on rich people to give (to acquit) 0.4% (in
every year) for the poor. This system is
defined by 3 verses are revealed on Mohammed: the 1st imposes on the
government to take this ratio through an administrative organization (it looks
like taxes in first time). In this fact; the rich people believe absolutely
that they apply their faith well when undertaking that (dogmatic obligation),
and that’s useful for their moral, for their psyches, their feeling and mood as
well. Because they obey a religious order and they know properly where their
money will go in the end.
The
2nd verse assigns precisely the kind of people in society who
deserve really a proportion of this wealth (they’re mentioned in 8 different
kinds from people). The 3rd verse show us a moral (ethical) value
between people that they don’t ask anyone for money in order to satisfy their
needs, and they should be satisfied by the disposable resources the most
possible of time.
The
purpose from this system is to guarantee social and economic rights respecting
the various segments of society. Furthermore; the people who get this income
-in respectful way- they don’t feel anything bad like deprivation or
shortcoming. All this harmony inside the society is coming from the
interference of faith in the conduct of state. Because of the ethical values
derived from belief and everyone can feel the worth of his existence with no
marginalization, then a lot of social diseases will disappear from the social
life because of the satisfaction feeling (we find a social equilibration). This
is not everything; other procedures also are applied in order to organizing
more and cover every form of instability (like: preventing the usury and
resisting against the monopoly, and decreasing the inflation).
Of
course we can’t please all people 100%, but you can teach them how to be
pleasant and satisfied in their lives and this mechanism can play an important role
instead of actual tax measures and it results will be more practical and
efficacy than now. In the ruling of Omar ibn Abdul-Aziz; the nation reached a
perfect application for these rules into society on a very big area in that age,
but sadly these amazing solutions aren’t applied in their home countries today because
all legislations and laws are inherited from the colonial institutions of the
20th century.
I’m
sure that there are many creative solutions in our world, to save resources, time,
and more positive effects, besides to avoid complexities, and only we don’t
know or never heard about them until now, but they deserve to consider them, get
lessons and look toward the best world.