Pros and Cons of Social Inequality in our Society

Do you agree with the notion,"A light purse is a heavy curse".

            I will commence on a serious note, Muhammad (Peace be upon him) said that "Destitution is a curse". There is saying that money makes the mare go. Now, let me talk about the ground realities. A person you may encounter in your vicinity, having four sons. The eldest one is a teacher, living within fair means, but the parents often comments, "So much money went into making him a reasonable person, but he is destined to lead such a wretched and ordinary life".

       The second son in the order of precedence is working somewhere in a Government department, but is a very honest person. Again, the poor fellow is a blessed one. Parents comment sparingly giving an impression that the poor fellow is a naive, tactless and retrogressive type.

       Now the third son is a godly figure, frequently visiting mosque five times a day, living peacefully within his means. This fellow is also deprived of the blessing of parents.

       The youngest one is in Revenue Department. Both father and mother feel proud of him. He is the blessed one, mother openly says to whoever visits their homes. Look at his education, hardly matric but luck is always banging at his door. Within a couple of years, he owns a beautiful mansion, a pricey car, and his daily spending is more than a aristocrat or a businessman.

      When a marriage ceremony is taking place at home. Guests are treated totally on the basis of their social status and material gains. We assign menial jobs and chores to our poor relatives and on the reception, we post authoritative and sophisticated ones. We introduce proudly the rich ones and discard the poor's in order to maintain the symbol of status-quo. We give rousing reception to those who are not well-connected with us and are ushered and escorted then into a very special room in the house, disregarding their source of income and qualification.
       
       We observe our blind love for a "Religious Scholar" in our daily life in a variety of gatherings and social interactions. We all know that a person is involved in immoral and evil acts living among us. But we all try to cover up all his failings and blemishes even we misquote from the Holy book and Prophet's sayings to prove him innocent. We are all praise for him. On the other hand, a person who has lived his whole life with us, we know his character but then in the same breath, we attribute his wordily failures to fate and destiny or ways of lord beyond our comprehension. We worship and practice religion individually and collectively.

         Our standard of morality has virtually been altered, once impudence was despised but now we countenance it by giving it a different nomenclature. If you belong to the upper strata of society your every quirk, whim and idiosyncrasy will be appreciated and deemed as.
 

     
      When a poor person dies, we try our utmost to make him qualified to have place in Hell. But in case, a rich person dies, we try our utmost to paint him as godly figure. We desperately try to find his very small or negligible petty good acts and then look at the number of people at the burial ceremonies. May God help us to be realistic and Benjamin Franklin rightly said, a light purse is, of course, a heavy curse.
         

"Benjamin Franklin"