Where Wealth Accumulates and Men Decay

1. Introduction
2. Divorce from religious serenity and ethical sanctity; our life has become grossly materialistic.
3. Wordsworth:”World is too much with us.”
4. The sole aim of modern man is to advance materially, even by means of cut-throat competition.
5. T.S. Eliot: “Hollow men journeying ceaselessly and without any aim” in the waste land, where “the very breath of the wind is fatally poisonous.
6. Our mission in life is accumulation of material wealth; our vision is limited, shadowy and dim and our outlook is much too mechanical.
7. The one glaring result of mechanization of our outlook is our complete separation from nature.
8. Man has become too much time conscious and equally unconscious of the importance of noble relations and sentiments.
9. The fatal tendency to accumulate wealth has led modern man to a state of spiritual morbidness.
10. Bertrand Russell: Our civilization has been “subjected to be self-decaying and self-damaging convention of over maturity.”
11. This perverted civilization of ours has robbed us of our spiritual and moral values of life.
12. Along with material need, we have to satisfy our spiritual and moral urges, too.
13. Islam teaches an absolute balance between material and spiritual life.
14. Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the father of the nation, also held the same view of life. According to him man’s greatest endeavor should be the purification of his soul.
15. “Man has become uninterested in the final activities of his life; he has no response to the inner values of life. He is over occupied with one vocation, i.e. to pile up wealth.”
16. “Man capital has reduced to mere machine, ever busy in moving, rolling back, pushing itself forward, never ceasing but always grinding and grinding.”
17. Conclusion

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