Saba Al -Asfour
We often hear the phrase that is directed to the families who suffer from poverty and destitution: “As long as you are poor, why do you have children?” And hold them responsible for the consequences of this decision and increase the psychological, economic and social burdens.
A large amount of bullying and violence pouring down on the heads of poor families, as if childbearing for them is reckless while the rich have a privilege, so who said that the poor does not have the right to have children? Are the standards of motherhood and paternity related to economic productivity or human value?
This is a discriminatory view that silences the poor in the name of “economic logic” and criminalizes them until the right to “fatherhood and motherhood”, so no one is higher than anyone just because he possesses more money. Poverty does not cancel the humanity of the individual, and does not withdraw the right of dreams and share life. Why did the Commander of the Faithful Ali bin Abi Talib (PBUH) say: “If poverty was a man, I would have killed him?” Because the crisis is not in poverty, but rather in the form of poverty made by society that crushes the dignity of the individual, the disappearance of the simplicity of humility and solidarity, and the classification of people according to their wealth, not their hypocrisy, we lived a time in which the majority of people were poor but happy, not because the poverty is common, but because the perspective is broader and the conviction is greater, and the belief that the livelihood is from God as long as the human being is not. It prevails, and everyone has a share of what God has given, and everyone was Hamid and thankful, and at the same time a hard and worker.
Instead of the families of the family and the increase in psychological burdens on them, have we returned to the reasons for this full phrase and we tried to know its source and what do we suggest to address this unjust classification?
Is it possible to write a new societal “moral charter” that gives a person the right to express his fatherhood, whatever his economic situation, and re -evaluating dignity outside the market standards?
Also, we certainly need to reconsider the economic system and reform it according to fair religious and human values, not what we have learned from the theories of the imported economy and the imported Western administration, and it is also necessary to evaluate the consumer lifestyle imposed on us by the media as if it were the criterion of happiness.
Finally, who has the right to “decide” to those who are granted parents or motherhood?
Perhaps the most noble answer is not in money and economy, but in human recognition that life is a right for those who want to live, and that dignity is not measured by assets but by the situation.
Poverty is not a defect, and a child does not need a “class license”, so perhaps the hearts of the poor are more welcome than the treasures of the rich.
