On the occasion of this international event, I would like first
to clarify about the meaning of work and the current situation of child labor.
It is possible to call any type of engagement or movement as
a work. So the human is actually a worker even when he is busy at house or when
is working for his landlord, and more usual when he is working in a company, in
a system or in a factory for his employer.
It is good for human being to be involved in any form of such
working instead of being jobless. Because unemployment is the root cause of degradation
and corruption, which is currently one of the biggest global challenges.
However, it is very important that people have an appropriate job rather to be
engaged in crimes or wrongdoings. Nevertheless, the shortage of proper job
results in such human faults while they strive to do something as an
engagement.
Children are substantially immature and with no intellectual
maturity. Since the wisdom assists humans to choose between good and evil
during the life, it is the best tool to save mankind from dangers and serious
challenges.
While discussing about child and work, it has both good and
bad meanings.
Considering the title of child labor, one can say it is good
if a child could do something, but this work must have no interaction with his
main responsibility and should have no danger to his health. But when we speak
about child labor, it refers to child exploitation, the cases where improper
jobs are imposed to children under eighteen years of age and caused them to leave
their main task which is education or often tends to their physical illnesses
due to intolerable pressures or sometimes mental diseases originated from the
work environment as a result of rape or sexual harassment. Because the children
are basically immature and their wisdom is still limited.
Since child labor is an oppression against the children, this
oppression is basically the result of injustice. The lack of justice results in
thousands of crimes, one of which is children exploitation, a kind of child
abuse. Since justice is a subset of religion, so injustice is due to its absence.
There is a phrase saying that “do not oppress”; this phrase,
which is attributed to God by religions, has become a rule to follow. But it is
observed that there is oppression in the world and God is an oppressor as well.
For example, referring to Islamic holy book of Quran, it is written that “God
taught the human being what he did not know”, so it is concluded that human
should learnt oppression from his creator; or it is written that “God inspired
human beings with knowledge of evil and piety”, means he has taught the mankind
to do evil, and also it is written that “surely the human soul incites him to
evil”, it means the foundation of mankind is based on badness.
So in conclusion, the oppression is caused by the religion.
In order to analyze the cause of these problems, I want to prove
that those are related to both religion and politics. If the real religion was
existing, if the justice, humanity, fairness, honor, mercy and generosity were
dominant, the situation would be different. So if one asks why those values are
not dominant, the answer is because all of the religions and faiths are actually
manmade. Those religions are just limited to our earth planet and what they
have attributed to the Lord of existence, have been just claims. That is why
their defects are obvious within the holy books, religious contexts and Sharia
laws.
In addition, the religions are not the only responsible for
these miseries; rather the politics have been the source of such unforgiveable
and big crimes. The politics ruling the entire world has made the current
situation in which a kid is being fooled and exploited.
If the global politics was oriented to serve the nations, the
enormous resources, which are more available in some, lands than others, would
be exploited to develop the mankind civilization. If the politics in general
meant to serve the mankind, the leaders of the countries with superior economy
would sat together in the place where they have called United Nations, to find
a solution for these oppressed children. The kids who have nothing to eat, the
ones who must work for survival of their families as a result of which they
become depressed, old and weak during their first or second decade of their
life, or the other children who are more unfortunately employed in distribution
of drugs, serving for terrorism or suicide bomb attacks, due to unfair system
ruling the world. It is the politicians and rulers who are responsible for all
of these corruptions, because all of them are actually liars.
Primarily it is necessary to review the lifestyle of each
politician who is claiming to defend the rights of poor and deprived people; if
he has even more clothes than his need, he is a liar, let alone if he has too
much properties.
All of oppressions against the children in contemporary era,
is because of the fact that the politics has been served for looting of nations
and that the politicians have been busy in ways to promote their parties, to
develop opposition group or to suppress their opponents and to get rid of their
competitors. What else the system ruling the world have done for children? They
never provide any correct and accurate statistics showing how many hungry,
disable and captivated children both boys and girls are living throughout the
world, because it will discredit the global politics.
There are many girls in different regions of the world below
the age of ten years who are being exploited for sexual purposes even some are
forced by their families to do so. The reason is poverty which is actually a
consequent of oppression. Religion and politics have oppressed the people,
since they have worked together like the two blades of a scissors.
If the religion was telling the reality, the religious people
would have assisted each other. For example, regarding the Zakat al-Fitr, a charity
which is paid at the end of fasting month of Ramadhan, it is necessary to note
that if all religious people and fasting prayers had paid this charity, there
wouldn’t have been any poor inside the country. So if the question is where
such revenues have been spent, the answer will be just in building new palaces
for religious and political authorities. They have increased their power and
wealth, while the medium class have become poor and the poor people have become
more miserable. But the task of the ones who are responsible for distributing
such charities is to pay such revenues to poor people who are in need of food
assistance. Even some religious laws are clarifying that this money should be
paid to all miserable people regardless of their religion and beliefs. As a
Persian poem says “Human beings are members of a whole, in creation of one
essence and soul”, so it is advised to help all poor people even if they have
no beliefs, because basically they are human beings with feeling and mind.
In conclusion, if we want to help the children who are being abused
as child labors, we have to modify the root and to find the solution for the origin
of this catastrophe, which is certainly the essence of both religion and
politics.
God Bless You
Boroujerdi, Founder of monotheism without Borders
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