My 112th Post: Begging

Earning is a tough thing and people realise it once they are on there feet without any shoulder to rest the head upon....they do hard work through out their life just to earn a decent living...some study and earn good grades and degrees to get a desk job and others might spend their life bagging experience in order to start up a business or do something depending upon their field of interest.....no matter what, both the types try to make a reputation for them and their families in this world and most importantly, they eat from what they rightly earn....

Well everybody has his/her own perspective and there are some who have a way different than mine....there are people who no doubt work hard day and night but the way they earn is not respected in the society because they don't earn what they get....they beg for it and literally they do.....these are the ones who eat out of others' plates and don't even feel ashamed of doing that....they roam around the streets in search of people who might give them money for just asking for it....they stick around and keep circling the ones who might have some cash to throw away and in the end, are the owners of something which was thrown at them....
Begging is getting out of hands specially in countries like Pakistan or India....there is no force which would stop the beggars...so the streets are filled with groups of people waiting in line to make you feel guilty just to give them some cash....the second reason is that people don't realise the fact that if they give something to someone without any return or some hard work, they are just encouraging them to ask again....with time, the person wouldn't hesitate even a bit and that someone would proudly ask for stuff...this is natural...if someone is getting something without any hard work and just has to ask for it, why would he/she will to work in the future....they would just ask...why would someone cook a meal when they are automatically served on time....so there won't be any sense of responsibility in that someone's mind and would take things for granted....
It feels so odd to see someone coming in front of you and raise their hands to ask for money....if that someone is needy, one should help as much as he/she can because they had no other option...but these days, it is really a tough job to distinguish a needy from a professional beggar.....what matters is mainly your intention...so if you help someone out with good will, it is alright...but if you know that someone is a beggar and you have seen that someone continuously, try avoiding him or her....
Try stopping the idea of begging not by eliminating beggars but by changing their thinking....if you know some available job, offer them a job in exchange because they need to earn as well....you can't just kick them out....or motivate them in showing their talents like the ones in U.S or U.K who play guitars or dance in public to entertain just to earn.....
It would be a better society if everyone understands the idea to earn rather than to snatch someone else's treasure...

My 101st Post: Hunger

It is the month of Ramadan going around in the entire world...all the Muslims might be fasting during this month and keeping their stomach empty for hours and hours....this month is believed to bring blessings and motivates the followers from committing further sins....during a fast, there are certain rules and regulations to keep in mind and the most important one is not to eat or drink anything...
People might think that I am weak while fasting because this is the first month in all my years when I really am feeling lack of food in my stomach....it is somehow tough for me this year to keep up with the fast but still, Allah is supporting me to maintain my fasts and keep a hold upon my hunger....

The best part of feeling hungry for me is that in my entire life time, this is the first time when I have connected with the poor....Masha-Allah I have been brought up in a family where am blessed by Allah to keep me well fed and well dressed....He never made me go to bed without food and never made me shiver in the cold winds....I have always had a roof above my head and I thank Him from the depth of my heart....this year, while fasting, I am beginning to realise what it is to pass a day without food....though the fast is only for few hours, there are people who go hungry for days and nights....during these few hours, when I churned the desire for food, I started wondering that what would it be to be poor...how do people survive when they have nothing to eat or drink....it is really tough....the strength from the body starts deteriorating and everything seems to fade away with time....it feels as if I am going to collapse if I don't take a nibble....nothing seems to cool the mind off and each and everything seems tasty to the eyes.....
There are people in this world who have nothing to eat or drink....they work hard but still in the end sit with there heads in their laps without a bite to swallow....how would the ones feel who have their families to support but they can't even fulfil their own hunger....world is tough for them...on the other hand, there are people like you and me who are blessed with enough food to suppress our hunger and are blessed with enough drinks to flood our throats....we never really realised what would it be like without food and water....how would we ever survive....
Well, I thank Allah for giving me this chance of understanding the importance of food and making me aware about the blessings He has bestowed upon me and my family....if it weren't for this month of Ramadan, I might never had been thankful for all the food am provided with, from my heart....I would have just taken it for granted but insha-Allah from this day on, I would always respect food and keep in mind that how well am blessed....I intentionally wrote this post while fasting because I wanted to pour out my feelings when am being irritated by my hungry stomach...
May He bless us all and may each and everyone be thankful to Him.....

My 95th Post: The Hungry Men

When a child enters this world, the first thing it needs is to satisfy its hunger....once satisfied completely, it asks for more in a period of time and with the growing days, its hunger increases and increases....a time comes when that child turns into this common society man who gets hungry to an extent that he starts working hard to fill his growling stomach....hunger isn't only satisfied by food though that was the ideology as a child...with maturing brain, hunger takes different shapes and is also satisfied by the worldly desires....desires like wealth, power and reputation....
Man works hard, day and night, to earn what he desires....he keeps striking his luck in a hope that one day not only his stomach would be filled, but all his desires would be laid down in front of him in a golden platter....when he fails, he gathers up different excuses just to keep his brain intact so that he may start all
over again....
The worst aspect of being hungry is that hunger never dies...though it may seem to seize but it never dies.....after a while, a person feels hungry again and starts going around like a crazy beast...ones who are capable of soothing their hunger know there way out of this mess and the rest, cross every limit just to fulfil that worldly desire....they seem to find no other possible way to earn food for there family or enough money to live their life peacefully....when no other door opens up, they start robbing or killing people for money because they are just impatient and do not trust the One who made them....
I know that it would be tough and for a guy like me, Masha-Allah, I can not understand their feelings and their urgency but that doesn't give them any right to go on and mess with the ones who worked really hard for what they deserved....snatching someone's possessions just to satisfy one's family is the reason of killing the family of the victim.....who knows what type of wealth a person has...one who drives a car doesn't really means that he/she is wealthy...
I know that the government is to be blamed for such a rise in crime rates but that shouldn't be used as an excuse....our government has flaws, everyone knows that but that really doesn't means that one should go out and be a thief, a murderer or start up businesses like prostitution....that ain't the answer to the problems....there are ways to earn and not saying it just as a thought....these people should see the poor farming families who work day and night just to earn enough to eat for a single time....there are many jobs available but people want shortcuts to wealth and while taking one, they forget the initial desire of hunger in this society, a pious and respected life....
I really don't know how to stop these people who are building their castle upon other's gold but I do know that they are wrong and I would always try to raise my voice against them....may all of us be blessed and develop respect for each and everyone's right...