Social Welfare through Islamization in Pakistan Assessment and Evaluation (1979-1984)Christine Gieraths

ASIEN – Nr. 31 (1989) pp. 1–31

From an Islamic point of view, a community which observes the laws of Allah, no matter how deprived in material circumstances, is much superior to another which is materially wealthy but spiritually empoverished (…) The key issue is whether a society at large would be prepared to a major erosion in social morales and values in return for more health, education and material comforts (desirable and even necessary as they are). Obviously, judged from our own spiritual and social values, the quality of life in Pakistan as it is, would on balance be considered vastly superior to that in Non-Muslim countries, and would compare quite favourably to that in our brethren Muslim countries.