Islam's Response to Contemporary Issues — Page 114
114 islam’s response to contemporary issues Building of Trust and Inviolability of Trusts and Treaties In the Islamic society, the building of trust plays a very important role. The inviolability of trusts and international treaties is considered fundamental to the concept of unity in Islamic society. Believers are described in the Holy Quran as: Who are watchful of their trusts and their covenants. 40 Eradication of Evil—A Collective Responsibility The responsibility of educating people is not entrusted to governments but collectively to the people themselves to do good deeds and to abstain from evil. In more developed societies, it is the job of refuse collectors to gather unwanted waste from homes and streets for disposal. In poorer countries, the housewives simply throw away the junk and refuse on to the streets till the streets become littered with filth and are no longer fit as passageways. Of course it is the responsibility of the inmates to clean the houses but there has to be some system of keeping the streets and pathways clean. It is tragic that though the West has learned the importance of this social responsibility of keeping places frequented by the public clean, it has yet to recognise the dire need of acquiring the responsibility to purge society from the criminal human waste which daily spills over from homes to streets and public places.