Re: Poor and middle class as a mentality

Poor and rich are social problems that all countries have. In the book I read entitled "Zakat", it is said that the solution for the poor and the rich is zakat, in the wealth of the rich there is a right for the poor 2.5% of the total because the essence of man was created to be a leader, when he is well off and has wealth. If there is excess, then look at your family first, when your family is poor, in your property there is the right of your family and it is obligatory for you to give it. When your family is prosperous then look at your surroundings, if your neighbor is poor, your neighbor has rights in your property and it is obligatory for you to give it. When is it said that you are obliged to pay zakat for the poor, when your wealth has met the nisab (rules for calculating it), that is, your wealth is equivalent to 85 grams of gold. With this zakat, wealth will be distributed to the needy according to the proportion so that human life becomes prosperous.

Hmm ... I can only agree that any opinion has a right to exist. But I definitely do not like the essence of it. Please tell me why a person who constantly works, and receives a good reward for it, should share something with someone, especially, probably with someone who, in order to improve his well-being, "does not put a finger on his finger" !? Why should a working person who wants to organize his life have to pay for a comfortable life at his own expense? I understand very well what charity is. But there is no need to pervert the idea of humanity, good deeds, and to form a layer of lazy, stupid, doing nothing people living at someone else's expense. And will we also form a stratum of "slaves" who must work, develop, earn for their family and for a couple of families of such social ballast? Humanity should be logical!

There are 8 categories of people who are entitled to receive zakat from the rich, from those 8 categories, I don't think I will let the lazy wave continue against them. Poor which is said in zakat is also different from the state version of poor. Poor in the book of zakat is said when the income is not enough to meet the basic needs of one day, so when you have excess wealth isn't it normal to donate in the form of zakat?

I read about it, found information. I just ask you not to be offended by my answer, tk. what you are proposing is based on religion. So this is not a solution to the problem. Not even partial. Let's take a look at this process from the outside. And we will evaluate it as any process in terms of the result. Despite the fact that in the Muslim world there are a lot of very rich people, the number of the poor is disproportionately higher than if, for example, compare the US or the EU. There is a middle class there, in Muslim countries, with rare exceptions there is almost no middle class. This is an indicator that "fair distribution" does not work, which means that some other principles in the structure of society / state are violated.
Again, in my personal opinion, such one-time "gifts" do not solve the problem at all. As a rule, they go to "grub", and never go to systemic solutions, such as paying for the child's education.