Factors of Poverty İn Afghanistan From The Perspective of The Quran and Sunnah

Abstract

The Almighty Creator has bestowed upon his creatures sustenance and blessings, the limits of which are contingent upon various factors. The primary blessing is available to all, which is human beings securing for themselves through their thoughts and actions, or providing the means for their loss. Some of these factors are material, while others are spiritual. Poverty poses one of the greatest challenges facing our people, and due to its exceptional importance in eradication, both the government and scholars in this land have always contemplated to understand the factors and subsequently finding solutions. This material poverty is a natural consequence of forced wars, economic instability, and the absence of a cohesive plan to address it, which we continue to face until now. In this article, the moral factors of poverty in Afghanistan were discussed using a descriptive-analytical approach. The research results indicate that these factors either relate to the individual's relationship with his Lord Almighty or with his fellow human beings, or they relate to the individual's thoughts and actions towards himself. These factors can be divided into innate and human, the most important of which are: the natural differences among humans, divine tests, religious weakness, sins, ingratitude for Allah's blessings, usury, ruling with other than what Allah has revealed, laziness, injustice, neglect of religious institutions to alleviate poverty, lack of consideration for income and expenditure balance, absence of a regular program to alleviate poverty, lack of investment in human intellect, failure to delegate tasks to their rightful owners, unplanned births, and disregard for health and hygiene by people in society.