Charity via empowerment
Pakistan, March 6 -- "Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it"-John D Rockefeller
When a man came begging to our holy Prophet, Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) for a couple of dirhams, instead of giving him alms he (PBUH) bought him, for the same amount, an axe and a rope. This was providing him with the means to earn a decent livelihood. In other words, the two dirhams were used to empower him with the capacity to make more dirhams without compromising his self-respect. As the saying goes: "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime".
One of the worst and most inhuman forms of seeking money, is through begging. Even worse is the tossing of some coins...
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