Let me negate the hypothesis that ' democracy' is a revolutionary process: in fact it is an evolutionary process that takes decades and centuries to evolve and at the end has failed to bring equality, justice and fairness to the poor masses and have nots' in a society. Let me tell the readers that the revolutions have been bloody and barbaric and caused death and destruction on the horrendous scale and are temporary. French revolution was one of the bloodiest in France's history and replaced monarchy with the mob rule. Bolshevik revolution was possibly the bloodiest in the human history and killed and massacred over 30-40 millions people in Russia in pursuit of communist ideology but failed within fifty years. Any man-made or tailored-made ideology and revolution can not be just, fair and equal because it is made by a human brain and could not be fair and just to every section of a society because a man is born selfish. Communism was presumed to look after the poor but was an economic catastrophe in the Soviet Union and where it was imposed.
Democracy of the people (mob), for the people (mob) and by the people (mob) could not be have been a perfect system of governance and, therefore, the slogan has changed appropriately to, Democracy of the rich, for the rich and by the rich". Democracy promises a poor man a piece of paper to throw in a tin-pot or the ballot box but then forgets all about his/her welfare, social needs and status. I agree that in democracy every one gets an opportunity to improve their standard of life but the 90% of the population remain under privileged and abjectly poor. Laws and rules are made by the wealthy and the privileged to look after their own class, preserve it prolong the iniquitous process allowed in a democracy. The wealthy and privileged few are law makers and breakers and take full advantage of the democracies they live in.
Islam offers the best system of governance: its socio-economic, welfare, political and jurisprudence system is given to mankind by Allah Talaha Who is the Rabul Almeen who loves his creations seventy times greater than a mother love for her child and that system could not be iniquitous. If you are a student of history; you must study the glorious and magnificent period of the rule of our beloved Prophet Mohammed (SAW) and of the Khulfai-Rashdeen and say with utmost honesty and sincerity that it was not the best the world had ever seen. Through out the Islamic empire, not a single subject whether Muslim or zami went hungry and was provided with every amenity of life by the Islamic State.
Capitalism was bound to fail as did the Communism because any man-made ism or ideology can not bring fairness, justice to the masses and is the ultimate recipe for economic, social and political catastrophe. Communism to fail because it crushed human aspirations, freedom, liberty, prohibited personal possession of assets and made the proletariat just mechanical robots - means of production for the communist state. The godless state-run ideology is anti-thesis of western capitalism, competition and prohibition of amassing wealth, which is a natural desire of a normal human being. Equality of all men in wealth and comfort, even if it is ideal, does not promise to be of unmixed good to humanity. First because natural talents are not equal amongst different men, so much so that even if one were to start a group of person with complete equality, sooner the spendthrift will fall into difficulties and will again look on the fortune of his comrades with greed and envy. Further, on philosophical and psychological grounds, it seems that in the every interest of human society, it is desirable that there should be grades in wealth and the poor having the desire and incentive to work harder.
On the other hand if it is asked of men to work harder than their capacity without a reward, then everyone will become lazy and careless would be tremendous waste of peoples talent and loss to humanity. Everyone knows that livelihood is in constant progress, though the domination and exploitation one after the other of all things that God has created, whereas one sees that the rest of animals have changed nothing in their livelihood ever since God has created their spices. The cause of this difference as discovered by the biologist is simultaneous existence of a society, a cooperation, and a liberty of competition inside the members of the society, i.e., human beings, whereas other animals suffer from the lack of some or all these requisite conditions.
Perhaps the most developed social co-operation is found among bees, ants and termites: they live in a collective way with the complete equality in livelihood, yet without any competition among its members and consequently it is not possible for the more intelligent or more industrious bee to live more comfortably than others. For this reason, there is neither evolution nor change, much less progress in any of these species as against the human race. The past history of man shows that every advance and every discovery of the means of comfort came into existence through competition and desire for amelioration, and also through the existence of grades of wealth or poverty among men, one above the other. So, it was necessary for every progressive civilization and every healthy culture to impose certain duties on its members (such as to pay the taxes), outlawing embezzling, cheating etc, and recommend certain supererogatory acts like charity and expenditure for the sake of God, yet nevertheless to have a great deal of liberty of thought and action to its members, so that each one benefits himself, his exigency, his friends and the society at large.
This is exigency of Islam and its also conforms to nature. It tolerates the minority of the rich and accumulation of wealth but imposes upon them heavier obligations: prevents immoral means of exploitation, hoarding and accumulation of wealth. Further, it makes injunctions and also some recommendations for charity and sacrifice with promise of spiritual and eschatological rewards.The economic policy of Islam has been explained in most unequivocal terms: so that this (wealth) may not circulate solely among the rich from among you, (59/7). Islamic view is that unless equality(masawat) in all spheres of life is not practiced, a society will remain unjust and it is the duty of the state to provide and look after the needs and comforts of its subjects. The Sermon of Last Hajj, All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over a white - except by piety and good action. He explicitly mentioned the rights of men, women, and all groups of the society.
The greatest religious, political, cultural, social, economic peacceful revolution that was brought about in the history of the world and created the greatest impact on the humanity was brought about by our beloved Prophet Mohammed (SAW). The whole world became civilized as the message of Islam reached every corner of the globe. He preached and spread the message of Islam and Unity of One Allah; he changed peoples total way of thinking and took of them out from darkness to light; he abolished slavery; he for the first time gave political, social, matrimonial and inheritance rights to women; he illegalized killing of female babies as was practiced in Saudi Arabia; he changed the Bedouin of Arabia from wild, cruel and uncultured nomads into civilized educated lot who preached the word of Islam in the entire world; he introduced the most fair, equal and just system of governance that the world has ever seen and he was the unique, the only and the greatest noble man in the history of the world who was not only the last and final Prophet of Allah on this earth but was also a successful political leader; he was a great military strategist and general who led from the front; he was the greatest law giver and implementer; he was the most fair, just, humble, loving, generous, compassionate and noble man; he was a loving father and grand father; he was a loving and fair husband and the greatest human being that Allah has ever created. He was born to be Rahmatul-Alameen for the whole of humanity until eternity. Why should we follow any other nizam but given to us in the Quran, Sunnah and Hadiz of our beloved Prophet Mohammed (SAW)?
Democracy of the people (mob), for the people (mob) and by the people (mob) could not be have been a perfect system of governance and, therefore, the slogan has changed appropriately to, Democracy of the rich, for the rich and by the rich". Democracy promises a poor man a piece of paper to throw in a tin-pot or the ballot box but then forgets all about his/her welfare, social needs and status. I agree that in democracy every one gets an opportunity to improve their standard of life but the 90% of the population remain under privileged and abjectly poor. Laws and rules are made by the wealthy and the privileged to look after their own class, preserve it prolong the iniquitous process allowed in a democracy. The wealthy and privileged few are law makers and breakers and take full advantage of the democracies they live in.
Islam offers the best system of governance: its socio-economic, welfare, political and jurisprudence system is given to mankind by Allah Talaha Who is the Rabul Almeen who loves his creations seventy times greater than a mother love for her child and that system could not be iniquitous. If you are a student of history; you must study the glorious and magnificent period of the rule of our beloved Prophet Mohammed (SAW) and of the Khulfai-Rashdeen and say with utmost honesty and sincerity that it was not the best the world had ever seen. Through out the Islamic empire, not a single subject whether Muslim or zami went hungry and was provided with every amenity of life by the Islamic State.
Capitalism was bound to fail as did the Communism because any man-made ism or ideology can not bring fairness, justice to the masses and is the ultimate recipe for economic, social and political catastrophe. Communism to fail because it crushed human aspirations, freedom, liberty, prohibited personal possession of assets and made the proletariat just mechanical robots - means of production for the communist state. The godless state-run ideology is anti-thesis of western capitalism, competition and prohibition of amassing wealth, which is a natural desire of a normal human being. Equality of all men in wealth and comfort, even if it is ideal, does not promise to be of unmixed good to humanity. First because natural talents are not equal amongst different men, so much so that even if one were to start a group of person with complete equality, sooner the spendthrift will fall into difficulties and will again look on the fortune of his comrades with greed and envy. Further, on philosophical and psychological grounds, it seems that in the every interest of human society, it is desirable that there should be grades in wealth and the poor having the desire and incentive to work harder.
On the other hand if it is asked of men to work harder than their capacity without a reward, then everyone will become lazy and careless would be tremendous waste of peoples talent and loss to humanity. Everyone knows that livelihood is in constant progress, though the domination and exploitation one after the other of all things that God has created, whereas one sees that the rest of animals have changed nothing in their livelihood ever since God has created their spices. The cause of this difference as discovered by the biologist is simultaneous existence of a society, a cooperation, and a liberty of competition inside the members of the society, i.e., human beings, whereas other animals suffer from the lack of some or all these requisite conditions.
Perhaps the most developed social co-operation is found among bees, ants and termites: they live in a collective way with the complete equality in livelihood, yet without any competition among its members and consequently it is not possible for the more intelligent or more industrious bee to live more comfortably than others. For this reason, there is neither evolution nor change, much less progress in any of these species as against the human race. The past history of man shows that every advance and every discovery of the means of comfort came into existence through competition and desire for amelioration, and also through the existence of grades of wealth or poverty among men, one above the other. So, it was necessary for every progressive civilization and every healthy culture to impose certain duties on its members (such as to pay the taxes), outlawing embezzling, cheating etc, and recommend certain supererogatory acts like charity and expenditure for the sake of God, yet nevertheless to have a great deal of liberty of thought and action to its members, so that each one benefits himself, his exigency, his friends and the society at large.
This is exigency of Islam and its also conforms to nature. It tolerates the minority of the rich and accumulation of wealth but imposes upon them heavier obligations: prevents immoral means of exploitation, hoarding and accumulation of wealth. Further, it makes injunctions and also some recommendations for charity and sacrifice with promise of spiritual and eschatological rewards.The economic policy of Islam has been explained in most unequivocal terms: so that this (wealth) may not circulate solely among the rich from among you, (59/7). Islamic view is that unless equality(masawat) in all spheres of life is not practiced, a society will remain unjust and it is the duty of the state to provide and look after the needs and comforts of its subjects. The Sermon of Last Hajj, All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over a white - except by piety and good action. He explicitly mentioned the rights of men, women, and all groups of the society.
The greatest religious, political, cultural, social, economic peacceful revolution that was brought about in the history of the world and created the greatest impact on the humanity was brought about by our beloved Prophet Mohammed (SAW). The whole world became civilized as the message of Islam reached every corner of the globe. He preached and spread the message of Islam and Unity of One Allah; he changed peoples total way of thinking and took of them out from darkness to light; he abolished slavery; he for the first time gave political, social, matrimonial and inheritance rights to women; he illegalized killing of female babies as was practiced in Saudi Arabia; he changed the Bedouin of Arabia from wild, cruel and uncultured nomads into civilized educated lot who preached the word of Islam in the entire world; he introduced the most fair, equal and just system of governance that the world has ever seen and he was the unique, the only and the greatest noble man in the history of the world who was not only the last and final Prophet of Allah on this earth but was also a successful political leader; he was a great military strategist and general who led from the front; he was the greatest law giver and implementer; he was the most fair, just, humble, loving, generous, compassionate and noble man; he was a loving father and grand father; he was a loving and fair husband and the greatest human being that Allah has ever created. He was born to be Rahmatul-Alameen for the whole of humanity until eternity. Why should we follow any other nizam but given to us in the Quran, Sunnah and Hadiz of our beloved Prophet Mohammed (SAW)?
