This book is a manifestation of the fact that Pakistan has made much headway towards a welfare state during the last several years. It is an attempt to interpret Pakistan's definite commitment, being an ideological state; to make a leap forward towards a welfare state and that too being dependent essentially on Islam's own world view. This study, therefore, highlights the stance taken by Pakistan; for it is possible only within the framework of Islam that Pakistan could become a truly welfare state.
This book, for obvious reasons, is quite different from those that have lately been published on the subject. Some authors did try to ride the wave of the popular concept of a welfare state. But no attempt was made to re-think Pakistan and its role as a welfare state. That is the main reason why the author felt the need for a book like this one.
The main purpose of tracing an analogy of the welfare state from the fountain-head of Islam is to construct the argument that the concept of a welfare state is not something new either to Pakistan or to Muslims all over the world. It is a rich, delightful book, full of buoyance and charm, a tonic for pedants, a stimulant for intelligent dilettants. Welfare state made delightful and intelligible to everybody just when the world is peculiarly in need of welfare state for promoting the cause of international peace.
Syed Abdul Quddus is a national figure of International stature. He is among the foremost thinkers of Pakistan and his writings are regarded of immense value even by the foreign critics. Being the author of several internationally recognized books, he has readership all over the world. He is not only a researcher and scholar of Islam but a Political Scientist in his own right. According to Professor Giuseppe Buricchi of Rome he is among the great philosophers of the present day world and as a philosopher and thinker he may be compared not only with Giamni Gentile of Italy but with Bertrand Russell of England and Jean-Paul Sartre of France.
He is an intellectual, author, bureaucrat and humanist (such an impossible combination). Born and brought up in one of the fashionable quarters of an alien land, Quddus has lived more in the tribal society of Baluchistan than in his own. But as a restless person, he roamed from place to place enjoining peace of soul and acquiescence of mind. Being a professor emeritus, he travelled far and wide with a mission to preach and teach. In 1987, he participated in a International Didactic Course in the University of Rome. During the same year he had a study tour of Italy, Switzerland, France and Britain. Earlier he visited Iran, Afghanistan, India and Bangladesh.
He joined the Federal Government of Pakistan through the central Superior Services in the year 1961, and held various positions of responsibility in public service. He is married in one of the renowned and foremost tribes of Baluchistan.
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