Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 277
277 vehicles were in use, and people either walked or rode, the minimum width of a street was fixed at twenty feet, the object being that streets and roads should be wide and open. In the present age when wheeled traffic is on the increase streets should be proportionately wider. It is also the duty of the State to supervise the morals of the people and to seek to improve the moral tone of the people by education and instruction. Lastly, it is the duty of the State to uplift the peo- ple, that is to say, to adopt every possible and available means for their progress. This includes the propagation of new sciences, the encouragement of the spirit of investigation and research, the solution of new social problems, etc. The Duties of Subjects Corresponding duties have also been laid on the people. For instance, they must obey the government, even when its demands do not meet with their approval, and should lend their full support and co-operation to it. Though Islam invests the sovereign with authority in public matters, so as to empower him to issue orders for the welfare of the people after consultation with their representatives, he can exercise no authority over them in private matters. If a dispute, regarding any right, or property, arises between the Khalifah , and a private individual, it must be settled by the ordinary courts of the country in the same manner as a dispute between other private individuals interse. The sovereign can claim no special privilege or prerogative in the matter. Hadrat Umar ra was once summoned to court at the