| Hunger and poverty The
most common kind of suffering and infliction are hunger, poverty and diseases.
Let’s analyze the causes of these infliction one by one. Poverty
is the lack of enough income and resources to live comfortably. It is one of the
world’s main social problems. In both developing and developed countries,
millions of people are suffering because of poverty. Poverty is the most common
social disease. Many of the poor people in the world cannot buy the food, shelter,
clothing, and medical care that they need. This creates frustration, hopelessness
and lack of interest in life. In the late 1980’s, it was estimated that I
billion people, about a fifth of the world’s population, were so poor that
their health and lives were endangered. But what is the
cause of poverty and who should be held responsible for all that suffering ? Man
or God ? Poverty has variety of causes. Some of them
are being mentioned here. Lack of education,
skills and aptitude to do work. Many people don’t want to do work.They suffer
due to their laziness or less interest in work. Some people think that Allah Subhanahu
taala is our sustainer and He has taken the responsibility of our basic needs.
It is true, but still a lot of efforts are needed to take our share from the Divine
warehouse. So in many cases poverty is due to the under utilization of human potential
and natural resources. Inflation also significantly
contributes to pover ty. Inflation means increasing the price ofgoods which affects
a certain group of the society. We experience this problem now and then. This
is a man-made cause in which human selfish nature works to get as much as possible
without considering anything. Some countries
are poor because of lack of expertise and equipment needed to produce adequate
food supplies for most of their people. It is also due to the lack of involvement
in science and technology. Many women become
poor after they are divorced or separated from their husbands. It is also a personal
reason. In some cases poverty also results
from natural disasters such as floods, droughts or poor harvests. This can also
be the indirect cause of our wrongdoing which we shall discuss later.
Thus
in most of the cases we find that the hunger and poverty are mainly either due
to the improper distribution of amenities or under utilization of natural abilities
and resources Divine Punishments It
is important to know more about the Divine punishments. Quran has described the
Divinepunishments in detail. However, it is not easy for an ordinary person to
identify the Divine punishment and more importantly its actual cause.
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