Intentional society if you want to set up a social...

Intentional society if you want to set up a social, financial, political, or educa­tional institution and you do not have the intellectual, physical and financial potentialities necessary to undertake such a project, you try to find some other persons who may cooperate with you in the undertaking. Thus a group or a small society comes into existence, whose members join each other and work together with the prior intention to do so. Such a group is called an Intentional Society.

Characteristics of Accidental Society In this type of society, there is coexistence, but there is no cooperation except that of a very superficial nature and that too partial and of short duration. In this sort of get-together, the members of the group do not choose each other. That is why they do not consider it necessary to have any previous acquaintance with one another to be a member of that group.

For example, a passenger of a bus, a train, an aeroplane, or a ship normally does not feel any necessity at the time of purchasing his ticket to make inquiries about the moral character of other passengers, their views and their motives for the journey. Normally such inquiries are not even possible. He and other passengers are interested only in using a particular means of transport for going from one place to another, and no deep and extensive acquaintance is required to achieve this end.

Characteristics of Intentional Society This tie is, lasting within the limits of the objective of the society and continues to exist until the group is dissolved for one reason or the other. As this type of society comes into existence with the intention of cooperation for the realization of a particular object, therefore, in this case, coexistence is coupled with cooperation and mutual and reciprocal responsibility.

In this type of get-together members of the group select each other, and as the way of thinking and doing of each one of them affects the destiny of the others, they contemplate certain rules and criteria for the membership of their group. The coexistence and cooperation between the members of the group and their mutual relations are based on the principles and rules accepted by each member consciously and after careful study.

Members of the group work wholeheartedly for its growth and development. A definite example of an intentional society is a family, which in its Islamic form is a model for every other such society.