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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Humanitarian Rights in the Time of Appearance of the Mahdi (pbuh) Or World Promised Saviour Non Governmental Organisations Non governmental organisations (NGOs) are important elements in a society as they are at the leading edge of change. They share crisis intervention work with the government and take an interest in long term development of society.

This enables individuals to take an active role in working for a better society such as through voluntary work. People would willingly volunteer their time, money and services to NGOs that they may not necessarily be able to do so for official government jobs. The Islamic state should encourage NGOs to bring about change and alternative models. Through their advocacy work they provide innovations, fresh thinking and new visions.

They are sometimes response for setting the pace in areas like economic development and environmental protection. Ethical investment guidelines based on the guidance provided by God in the Holy Quran should be adopted by the government so that there is no investment in foreign corporations that are major defence contractors, or corporations which injure the environment, discriminate against women or minorities or are involved in repressive regimes.

Imam Ali (a) said: "Do not appropriate to your self that in which all the people have an equal share." Taxes The Islamic state has the right to raise resources through taxes provided that taxes are raised in a just manner and are within the bearable limit of the people. Imam Ali has stressed that taxes should be collected with justice and kindness.

The taxes and the budget suggested by Islam were not only to meet the needs of the poor and the needy ones of the Holy Prophet's (s) descendents, but to establish a government and to meet its necessary expenditure required for a vast executive-administrative system. Khums is one the huge incomes pouring into the Islamic treasury forming part of the budget.

It is levied on profits coming from agriculture, commerce, the internal and external and resource and in general it is taken equitably from all kinds of profits and incomes. After extracting their own expenditures, every individual has to pay one-fifth of his surplus profits to the Islamic authority. The aim of such a tax system is to remove the financial needs of the several departments and enable it to discharge the functions of a modern Islamic state.