Can justice prevail and merit is the order of the day in a society where there is no economic parity among the people? The plain answer to this question is a big NO. One becomes green with envy after seeing how meticulously and religiously the French are observing the notion of liberty, equality and fraternity—– the linchpin of France’s constitution after the French Revolution.
A friend of mine told me the other day that his son living in England had sent him money for distribution as zakat in Pakistan as there wasn’t any needy person available in England to whom he could give zakat.
We have forgotten the last Khutba of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) in which he had said ‘O people You were created from one male and one female. There is no superiority for an Arab over a non-Arab and for a non-Arab over an Arab nor for the white over the black and for the black over the white except in piety. All mankind is the progeny of Adam and Adam was fashioned out of clay.
After these words of the prophet can there be any ambiguity , about the equality of human beings?. All human beings come to this world naked and when they depart from here to the next world they are also buried almost naked. Why should some of them then make to die in hunger and poverty while others roll in pelf during their temporary stay in this world for a couple of years?
Difference between the haves and have-nots has been widening by the day in this country. If that wasn’t bridged at once odds are that a bloody revolution , like the one that had taken place in France might bring the present edifice crashing down.
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