The Prophet Muhammad A simple Guide to his Life
Prophetic Guidance for the Modern Age
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Socialist thinkers hold that all the resources of
production should be taken over by the government
so that it may enforce equality among all people by
the use of state power. When the socialist system
attempted to do so, it was revealed that this
artificial effort to produce equality had killed
something greater, and that was the incentive to
action.
In the socialistic system no one was the owner; all
were salaried government servants. This bid to
bring about equality therefore eliminated the very
thing, which was the greatest incentive to action -
that is personal interest. That is why progress and
development in socialistic societies were affected to
such a dangerous extent that they ultimately
collapsed.
The truth is that the difference between human
beings is not an evil but rather a great boon. It is
this difference, in fact, that causes people to
continuously face challenges and enter into
competition in a free human society. Challenge and
competition are stimuli, which keep people
perpetually active. A society which eliminates
