format_quote Originally Posted by
crimsontide06
Under Sharia law, as I understand it, food and drinks, shelter, anything to do with health needs, high school and college education....would all be free!!! As it should be! However, does this get rid of the incentive to work or go to school?? Why even get out of bed in the mornings if everything is provided for you??
Assalamu'alaikum.
During ramadan, many masjid provide free "iftar", which everyone can break their fast with free foods which provided by masjid. Where are the foods (or money to buy foods) come from?. From whealthy people who donate their foods or money, so the poor people who are not able to buy food can eat too.
This is the concept of wealth distribution in Islam, wealthy people share what they have to poor people, through zakat-infaq-sadaqah.
Islamic govt may provide free health care, free education, but actually the costs for those "free" are paid by wealthy people. Islamic govt collect zakat-infaq-sadaqah from wealthy people and distribute to poor people. Islamic govt should provide food for hungry poor people, but they should not feed the wealthy people.
"Everything should be provided by govt" is not the concept of Islamic society, but concept of communism, in exactly, communism in pure form. In this concept, govt provide what the people need, but people work only for govt. There's no freedom to 'choose the life' in this concept, and there's no individual property because everything owned by the state. Khmer Rogue tried to implement this concept when they ruled Cambodia, and we know the result.
In Islamic society, everyone has freedom to choose a job that they want, as long as halal. And people are allowed to collect wealth as much as they can, but they should always remember their duty to help poor people.