Hypocrisy aside, nobody wants an unenviable lifestyle...

Seriously, I admire people who can hold out, or even put on weight when everything around them is bad luck on the rise. I mean even if they're dead-ass broke and broken to the point that no one pays attention to them. I don’t know if it is only me, but to be honest, when I am really broke, like I was last Tuesday and will probably be two days before the twentieth, the first thing I do after my usual wake up yawn is a very long hiss.

Maybe I am being faithless; maybe not. Maybe nobody wants an unenviable lifestyle. Maybe those poorness pleasing sermons about people (strangely) going to heaven for their unfailing penury-endurance are but consolations. I ask myself, why is this prayer leader trying to live posh if there was so much reward in being poor? Maybe he is being untruthful, or maybe it is even more rewarding to go all-out and break out of that survival demanding situation. Maybe this piece needs a lot of ‘Istighfar’ (seeking forgiveness from God).

But who doesn’t want to be rewarded for paying the poor-due, and how can you pay that due when yours is past due? Who doesn’t want to be rewarded for strengthening the ties of kinship; but in this third millennium that you don’t even make sense if you aren’t making cents? “Spend on others, and I will spend on you” - isn’t that what they say is the Lord’s commandment for every one of His slaves? Who doesn’t want God to spend on you?

Who doesn’t want to appease the wrath of God and ease the sufferings of death by just giving charity? Don’t tell me even a smile is charity, because you’ve never seen a disheartened smile. About begging, weren’t we told that “the upper hand is better than the lower hand,”upper as in the giver and lower meaning the receiver? Now if you want, say ‘Astaghfirullah’ and judge me, or say ‘Jazarkumullah kairan’ and go and get paid, because in this life, you’re going to need stuff and everything costs money.