Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 37
37 (b) What are bad morals? (c) The different stages of good morals? (d) The different stages of bad morals? (e) Why are particular morals called good or bad? (f) The means whereby man can acquire good morals. (g) The means whereby man can avoid bad mor- als. 3. The third object of religion is to provide a solution for the social problems which confront mankind. Man being by nature social, it is necessary that religion should lay down basic principles which should govern his social conduct whereby peace and order may be established and all orders and classes of people becom- ing content with their respective rights and privileges, none of them should consciously, or unconsciously, trespass against any other. A little consideration would show that rules for the government of society can be equitably framed by God alone, for no man or class of men can, owing to the intrusion of personal interests, be possessed of that breadth of outlook which is a neces- sary qualification for this purpose. The statement of such principles, therefore, on which human society should be based is one of the important functions of religion, and a religion which fails in this respect can hardly deserve to be called by that name. For this pur- pose it is necessary for a religion to throw light on the following matters: (a) Domestic relations, that is, the rights of relations inter se , this being the first stage of human society;