BEGGING

Begging is always a , crime whether it is begging for freedom, begging for jo begging for money. The beggar is the man who has acknowledged defeat a

of destiny in the struggle for existence. weakling He and is aa coward. He deserves not pity but contempt. In time, we realised the futility of the beggin learnt that by struggle alone we could obtain freedom. Mostly begging is caused by unemployment or met contempt with byn a employer. Of

course, this refers to the bodied ablebeggars, who demand alms in the name of religion or God. It was an evil day for our country when begging impli salvation. In fact, No man has a right to beg who has the ability to earn his by th e sweat of his brow.

But there is another class of beggars who stand on a different footing disabled, the deformed and the diseased. Being by birth or accident ha they beg for their living; but in many cases theyon are behalf forced of to a band beg of the most cruel and heartless employers who make capital out of thei

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In England, there are Poor Law institutions maintained by the communit are rendered unfit for work and have none to support,the arecharitable removed to institutions like the Parish houses generally attached to the church a a charge on society. There are also vagrancy law that make begging by

bodied a punishable crime. The State looks after them in homes or the maintai purpose. In socialist countries, the disabled are guaranteed pensions

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In our country, however, the problem is always before the public, urge demanding a solution. On every public thoroughfare, at the steps of ev

mosque;all are crowded with beggars. Familiarity with th ords thegates of every w the diseased and theed maim has dulled our human sensibility and paralysed o

science. We just look at them and pass on a small piece of coin into a (557 palm.We forget that the diseased are very often a social menace and sh Azfar Javaid prevented from spreading contagion by rounding them up as the disabled deformed are a social scourge. The work should be taken up by municipa By: proper funds should created be for their maintenance. The rich who live in must come to the help of their unfortunate brethren in slums and hovel

The problem of thebodied able beggars, however, is vexatious. There are two of them. One class consists of uine thepoor gen who beg because they cannot fin employment. Governments in the West can stop them from begging, becaus accept partial responsibility for feeding them. But here our governmen

such responsibility and legislation against possible these is because im of religious taboo.

But the class of religious mendicants present a ticklish problem. We h to deal with them. We must examine how far it is possible to bring the

religious organizations ; religious trusts managed mosques by the and churches ,l et funds be collected from those whose religious sense detest (hate) the let charity be distributed by them. But the humiliating habit of beggi door must not be encouraged.