INEQUALITY.......

Prayers.

I came across following and would like to share with my friends for evaluation and comments as to where do you find Pakistan and the Muslim World in the light of this while keeping in view the fact that Islam is a 'Way of Life' which is based on EQUALITY, JUSTICE AND RESPECT FOR ALL; BY ALL? :

One of the earliest and most remarkable of the eighteenth-century investigations of freedom and servitude is ROUSSEAU's Discourse on Inequality (1755), in many ways a revolutionary tract, In it, he seeks to "set forth the origin and progress of inequality, the establishment and abuse of political societies, insofar as these things can be deduced from the nature of man by the light of reason alone."

His conclusions were sufficiently shocking that the judges of the prize competition of the Academy of Dijon, to whom the work was originally submitted, refused to hear the manuscript through. In it, Rousseau challenges the legitimacy of virtually every social institution, as well as individual control of property and wealth.

These are "usurpations.....established only on a precarious and abusive right......having been acquired only by force, force could take them away without (the rich) having grounds for complaint."

Not even property acquired by personal industry is held "upon better titles." Against such a claim, one might object:

"Do you not know that a multitude of your brethren die or suffer from need of what you have in excess, and that you needed express and unanimous consent of the human race to appropriate for yourself anything from common subsistence that exceeded your own?'