Write an easy on dignity of labour
Or dignity of work
Outline:
- Self-respects and dignity the main traits of great personalities
- Dignity is achieved through labour and hard work.
- Money can give comforts but labour gives grace and clean conscience
- Glorious example of the holy Prophet PBUH
- idleness bring disrespect
- work whether mental, manual or menial bring dignity and respect
Self-respects and dignity both in thoughts and actions have been the main traits of great personalities. History preserves the names and deeds of such men in golden words as led their lives in a dignified manner. They did not give in before false ego, inferiority or superiority complex, arrogance and self-pity. They fixed some goal for themselves and then with an unflinching determination, perseverance and diligence tried to achieve that goal. They passed through many tests and trials but faced each ordeal with a smiling face without begging for mercy or seeking any dishonest means. Their lives bear witness to the fact that labour, hard work or diligence whether it is manual or mental, pleasant or unpleasant is the only assurance or guarantee for dignified and successful life. You can earn heaps of money by using dishonest and illegal means but this money can never earn you respect and dignity. A poor laborer who earns his living with his own hands is far more respectable than the millionaire who accumulates money through unfair means. Money can give a dishonest person comforts of life but not a clean conscience and peace of mind. Peace is the lot of only the person who believes in the purity and dignity of work. Our
Holy Prophet (PBUH) was the king of the kings. He could get every comfort and luxury of life without doing any work himself. But he chose for him a dignified way of life. He worked as a shepherd and then as a merchant and earned his living by working with his own hands. Not only this but he also used to mend his clothes himself, clean his room and does other domestic errands. His style of life lent dignity and importance to work. He advised his followers to work hard and not to feel shame in doing any kind of manual or menial work. Idleness in a white, ant that eats up man’s vitality and verve and makes him mentally mean and abject. The lazy and the work shirker do not hesitate from begging and even selling their honor for a few rupees. An idle person has no self-respect and so other people too do not respect him. It is said that an honorable death is better than a life full of humiliation and disgrace. Some people consider manual work insulting and below their standard. They forget that it is the manual work that translates mental work into a reality and gives it a concrete from. Ideas in mind are good but they are useful only when they are given some practical shape. Work whether it is manual, menial or mental is sacred if it is done with a good intention using honest means. Such work gives dignity, sobriety and gravity to our personality and leads us from one success to another.
