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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Contemporary Man and the Social Problem Islam’s Position Towards Freedom and Social Assurance Freedom According to Capitalism and Islam We have come to know, from the above con­tents, that freedom is the central point in the capital­ist thinking, and the concept of "insurance" (rather, assurance) is the basic revolving point in the socialist and communist systems.

For this purpose we will be studying, com­paratively, the position of Islam and capitalism from freedom, comparing thereafter between the "insurance" according to Islam and according to the Marxist creed. When we say "freedom", we mean thereby its general meaning; that is, rejection of others' domi­nation, for this concept is the one which we can find in both civilizations, even when its frame and intellec­tual base vary in both[^1].

When we start comparing freedom according to Islam with freedom according to the democratic capitalist system, basic differences appear to us between the freedom which has been lived by the capi­talist society and advocated by capitalism, and the freedom whose banner Islam has borne and adopted by the society which Islam has created, providing its own experience on history's stage.

Each of these norms of freedom bears the stamp of civilization to which it belongs and with whose concepts of the cosmos and life it agrees, expressing the intellectual and psychological state which civilization created in history. Freedom, in the capitalist civilization, has start­ed as a bitterly overwhelming doubt, and this doubt changed, in its revolutionary expansion, into a doctrinal belief in freedom.

Contrarily to this is freedom in the Islamic civilization, for here it is but an expression of a firm central conviction (i.e., belief in God) from which freedom derives its revolution. According to the firmness of this conviction and the depth of its implication in man's life do the revolutionary powers in that freedom multiply. Capitalist freedom has a positive connotation.

It considers man to possess his own self, faring with it as he pleases, without surrendering in that to any external authority. For this purpose, all social insti­tutions, which affect man's life, derive their legal right to control every individual from the individuals themselves.