Obligation of the State
Chinese Chairman Mao Ze Dong called his countrymen in the mid sixties to fight the hegemony, the revisionist and the renegade clique spearheaded by the former Soviet Union. Within 10 years from 1966, China herself deviated from Mao Ze Ding’s teaching. Communist Paroty’s another Chairman Deng Ziao Ping said, there is no need to debate whether the cat is white or black if it catches rats. Deng’s thought is in truth the reflection of French writer ‘Machiavelli’s view.
Machiavelli used to say, “Ends justifies the means. You can follow any policy and tactics to arrest your goal (Ref: La Republic). Long before it, Islami thinker Imam Malek said that the Imam could make any law, however, protecting the basic principles of Islam for the welfare of people and to adopt with the changing needs (Ref: Land Reforms in Islam published by Islami Foundation).
The government at the same time must give guarantee of life and property of the people against lawlessness. No man can live in a chaotic society. And that is why landing in Medina, the Prophet Muhammad (SM) lost no time to form a government. British Philosopher Hobbs said there was no law in the primitive society. Lawlessness prevailed. Might is right was the principle. To get rid of it, people entered contract with one another and then with such a man whom they handed their authority to protect them from lawlessness and indecency. This is called Social Contract Theory.
Greek Philosopher Plato said, King must be a wise man; so said Prophet Dawood (AS) to a group of his followers. The ultimate object of a government is people’s welfare, security of their life and property, and a society where no man shall exploit another and no criminal shall be freed without trail.
Ameer Hamzah
Dhaka
