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Similarly, he understands that others also share his own strengths, desires and wishes, and just as he defends his own interests so others defend theirs. Thus, out of necessity, he co-operates with the social nexus and gives a certain measure of his own efforts to fulfill the needs of others; in return he benefits from the efforts of others in order to fulfill his own needs.

In truth he has entered into a market place of social wealth, always open to traders and offering all the benefits obtained by the collective work of the society.

All these factors are placed together in this marketplace of pooled human resources and each person, according to the importance society attaches to his work, has a share in these benefits Thus man's first nature incites him to pursue the fulfillment of his own needs using others in the process and taking advantage of their work for his own ends. It is only in cases of necessity and helplessness that he lends a hand to co-operate with society.

This matter is clear when we observe the nature of children: Anything a child wants he demands in an extreme way; he emphasizes his demand by crying. As he grows older, however, and becomes a part of the social fabric, he gradually puts an end to his excessive demands.

More evidence for the truth of this may be seen when a person accumulates power that exceeds that of others and he rejects the spirit of cooperation and its restrictions of society; such an individual uses people and the fruits of their labours for himself without giving anything back in return God refers to the necessary spirit of natural cooperation in society in chapter XLIII:32, "We have apportioned among them their livelihood in the life of the world, and raised some of them above others in ran/c that some of them take labour from others.

. " This verse refers to the reality of the social situation in which each individual has a different capacity and different talents: those who are superior in one domain engage the cooperation or employ of others for their eventual mutual benefit. Thus all members of society are linked together in the ways and wants of the fabric of one single social unit.

Those who do not see the obvious necessity of mutual cooperation are Condemned by God in chapter XIV: 34, "Truly man is surely a wrong-doer, (a tyrant)" and, in chapter XXXIII: 72, "Indeed he has proved a tyrant and a fool.