Pakistan as a Welfare State discusses Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah's vision for Pakistan as an Islamic welfare state. It defines a welfare state as a system where the government ensures basic standards of living for all citizens through social services like education, healthcare, unemployment insurance, and equal opportunities. Jinnah emphasized leveling up living standards for the masses rather than prioritizing accumulation by the rich. He also stressed that Pakistan should develop its own economic system based on Islamic principles of equality and social justice rather than blindly following Western models.

1. PAKISTAN AS A
WELFARE STATE

2. What is the concept of welfare state?
A welfare state:
is a system of government run organizations that help
everyone to have a good quality of life.
Provides for the prosperity or the wellbeing of the citizens
completely.
In which the government assumes responsibility for minimum
standards of living for every citizen.
It provides for physical, material, and social needs rather
than the people providing for their own.

3. Resolution of Welfare State
• The resolution of the welfare state is to generate economic and
social equality.
• To assure reasonable standards of living for all, access to
justice, freedom of faith, freedom of speech and transparency
in decisions of executive.
• The welfare state is responsible to provide education, housing,
rations, healthcare, pensions, unemployment insurance, sick
leave or time off due to injury, health facilities , and equal
opportunities for employment.

4. Quaid e Azam and the concept of welfare
state
“ It is not our purpose to make the rich richer and to
accelerate the process of accumulation in the hands of
few individuals. We should aim at leveling up the
general standard of living amongst the masses, our
ideal should not be capitalistic but Islamic and the
interests and welfare of the people as a whole should
be kept constantly in mind.”
July 1, 1948 State Bank Address

5. “Pakistan should not blindly follow Western
economic theory and practice and should
develop its own economic system based on
true Islamic concept of equality of manhood
and social justice.”
March 12,1949, the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan

6. “We are a nation. And a nation must have a
territory. What is the use of merely saying
that we are a nation? Nation does not live in
the air. It lives on the land, it must govern
land, and it must have territorial state and
that is what you want to get.”
Special Pakistan session of the Punjab Muslim Students
Federation on 2nd March 1941

7. It is extremely difficult to appreciate why our Hindu
friends fail to understand the real nature of Islam
and Hinduism. They are not religions in the strict
sense of the word, but are, in fact, different and
distinct social orders, and it is a dream that the
Hindus and Muslims can ever evolve a common
nationality.
Quaid-i-Azam declared at the All India Muslim League Lahore Session
on 23rd March, 1940

9. Other Responsibilities
• Gender Equality
• Freedom of Thought & Expression
• Protection of Religious Sentiments
• Equality Before Law:
The Prophet says that, the life and blood of Muslims are
equally precious.

10. Rights of Non Muslims:
• Islam has also laid down rights for non-Muslims who may
be living within boundaries of an Islamic state.
• So the Holy Qur’an has referred to the basic human
needs in these words : “There is therein (enough
provision) for thee not to go hungry nor to go naked; nor
to suffer from thirst, nor from the sun’s heat”
(ref. Al- Quran 20 : 118-119)

11. The Right to Basic Necessities of
Life:
“The government is the guardian of anyone who has no other
guardian.” -(Abu Daud, Tirmizi)
• The above mentioned saying of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
establish beyond any doubt that the responsibility of providing
basic needs to its citizens lies on the Islamic state. In this
matter, Islam has made no distinction between the Muslims
and non-Muslims

12. Conclusion
• A Dutch proverb says:
“Money is lost nothing is lost;
Courage is lost much is lost;
Honor is lost most is lost;
Soul is lost all is lost.”

13. Thank You