Our efforts to curtail the risk of bitterness and resentful desire won't quite succeed if sophistication is monopolised, and if a certain class of people are visibly enjoying a high standard of living at the expense of those living in extreme poverty. We should overstand that our individual social responsibility is not to find a way to escape poverty, but to find a way of fighting it.
If you ask me, October 17 (International Day for the Eradication of Poverty) is a cute thing, but it cannot eradicate poverty without the will to fight poverty. The colourful slogans we chant and wear in observance of the day are but fleeting illusions if the rich is not willing to share, and if we aren't willing to provide the poor with means, and provision must be for the sake of Allah (fi sabilillah).
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