BEGGING A PROFESSION OR A COMPULSION???????

Last Thursday, I was sitting with my mother in the car outside the bakery; my father was inside the bakery buying something. We were waiting for him. Suddenly a woman wearing an “ABAYA” with hijab having a purse in her hand, she knocked the window when I opened the window she said to me “BAJI ALLAH K NAAM PER DE DO MAIN BOHAT ZARURAT MAND HUN MERI MADAD KARO.” I was about to answer her unexpectedly a mobile phone rang I checked my cell phone but it was not ringing then the lady who was standing outside the car put out her cell phone and receive the call. I was shocked after watching it that she is having a branded cell phone even better than me and she was begging. It was really strange for me by then I was thinking that is begging a profession or a compulsion??????

Beggars are familiar faces in Pakistan. But nowadays the situation is becoming worst day by day. Now you are not able to judge that who is needy or needs charity in our society because people are adopting begging as a profession…. Those people who are able to earn their livelihood by themselves are now totally dependent on the labor of others and they considered it the easiest way for earning money.

Begging is now becoming a common trend among the children, men and women. We usually find teams of beggars near the mosques, traffic signals, shrines etc. on the other side a true beggar blindly relies on Allah who is the sustainer and supporter for all. There often repeated slogans are “KHUDA K NAAM PER DE DO, KHUDA TUMHARA BHALA KARAY, JO DE USKA BHI BHALA JOU NA DE USKA BHI BHALA….” Some beggars do not simply want to work and lake to begging. Beggars feel begging more easiest way of work rather than to do hard work.

Moreover, the people who deserve ZAKAT or charity deprived by that money and the fake beggars got that money and enjoying the life. Last but not the least certain measures must be taken by the concerned authorities must be taken to get rid of these people from our society…