Poverty

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When a rich person is rich, they know what they are spending and the way money can go away fast by spending it. When a rich person becomes poor, the rich person who just became poor is RICH IN KNOWLEDGE. Not money. So with that knowledge they can become rich once again. But suppose you give money to a poor person. Will they wisely spend it? No. They will waste it on the first thing that they see. So, when the poor person turns rich, he isn't ready and does not know how to spend the money wisely and then that money will be wasted and they will become poor once again. So to summarize this whole long paragraph I mean that the saying the rich person is richer when he becomes poor than when a poor person when he becomes rich means that the rich is richer in knowledge when he is poor. And that knowledge can get that rich person who became poor become rich once again. But if the poor person is rich, then they will waste all their money and become poor again because they do not have the knowledge on how to spend the money and stay rich.

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A rich person who becomes poor learns many life lessons (becomes rich in knowledge) from that situation. A poor person who becomes rich, doesn't learn much about life in the process (remains poor in knowledge).

It's not a very good saying because it's not necessarily true. Most poor people who become rich, work very hard to accomplish it and learn a lot along the way. Many people who are rich are very knowledgeable about life; being rich does not equal ignorance.

Islam is reducing poverty through many ways, some of them are:

• Persuading Muslims to help the poor through charities and other kinds of support
• Considering Zakah or Alms giving as one of the 5 pillars of Islam which is mandatory on Muslims who can afford it. Allah says: "Of their wealth, take alms so you may purify and sanctify them." [9:103]

  The word Zakah means purification and growth. Our possessions are purified by setting aside that portion of it for those in need. Each Muslim calculates his or her own Zakah individually. For most purposes, this involves the payment of 2.5% of one's capital, each Hijra year, provided that this capital reaches a certain minimum amount that which is not consumed by its owner through this year. A generous person can pay more than this amount, though it is treated and rewarded as voluntary charity (Sadaqah). This amount of money is provided to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor, and can be used in many useful projects for the welfare of the community.

• Persuading Muslims to avoid greediness and selfishness
• Prophet saying that no Muslim enters the paradise if he sleeps eating well while knowing his neighbor is hungry
• Forbidding bribery and considering sinful both the bribery doner and receiver.
• Persuading Muslims to work not to one's needs but to one's capacity
• encouraging work and considering it rewarded by God as ritual worship and calling for seeking the high quality during work.

I always consider poverty as a problem.

If poverty is understood to mean not being able to afford (or access) the basic necessities of living, it's obviously a problem for those directly affected by it.

Indirectly, it can also cause problems for others who are affected by the sometimes desperate behavior of those directly affected by poverty, since such desperation can (sometimes) lead to antisocial behavior, criminal acts, and a general disregard for the rights of others.

The existence of poverty in a society negatively affects practically everyone in some way, to some degree. Historically, the rich minority has attempted to isolate itself from the desperate acts of the poor through paid force, whether that be physical, legal, economical, religious, ideological, media control, propaganda, or indoctrination.