Introduction: What is hoarding, and why is it spreading?
Hoarding is a nefarious practice in which essential goods are purchased in large quantities and hidden away to create an artificial shortage in the market and then sold for a higher price when prices rise. This practice is shameful for society even in normal circumstances and takes on the worst form of cruelty in times of crisis.
The real purpose of hoarding is only greed and profiteering. It happens. Such people fall to the last limits of humanity in the love of wealth. They do not even feel the cry of the poor, the hunger of children, the treatment of the sick, or any pain.
In today's modern era, hoarding is not limited to just a shop or warehouse. Large factories, distributors, some capitalists, and certain mafias try to take control of the entire economic circulation.
It has been repeatedly observed that when:
- Ramadan is coming.
- A flood or earthquake occurs.
- The country goes into economic depression.
- A global crisis occurs.
So hoarders become active. This is the time when the people are helpless and have no alternative. This helplessness becomes the fuel for the wealth of hoarders.
This is a disgusting system that cuts off the path to development for the entire country.
Signs of Hoarding Behavior
The social aspect of hoarding: a disease that leads to the breakdown of society
Society remains stable as long as there is justice, moderation, and mutual compassion. When sustenance is withheld and removed from the reach of the weak, it shakes the foundations of society. Hoarding at the social level gives rise to the following evils:
Signs of Hoarding Behavior
Hoarding behavior creates significant changes in the daily life of a society. When essential goods quietly disappear from the market, people begin to face difficulties, which is a clear sign of a malfunction in the economy. These symptoms do not appear suddenly. They spread gradually, affecting families, businesses, and the overall social structure. The following points highlight key indicators that hoarding is actively taking place and is harming the community.
1. Dangerous increase in inflation
Food, medicine, and daily necessities are concentrated in a few hands. Prices start to skyrocket. It becomes difficult for a poor person to earn two meals a day.
2. Increased hunger and disease
If food is expensive, the poor remain hungry. If medicine is expensive, the sick die.
One person makes money but destroys thousands of lives.
3. Spread of poverty
When inflation increases, poverty increases, crime occurs, and the number of beggars on the streets increases. This humiliation and helplessness tramples on the dignity of the entire nation.
4. Class hatred
The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.
This difference creates hatred, mistrust, and rebellion in society.
5. Moral decline
As hoarding spreads, humanity is being eliminated from society.
People only start looking at their own benefit, and the rights of others disappear.
The economic aspect of hoarding: A serious attack on the country's economy
Hoarding is an economic war that seems to be silent, but its effects shake the entire country to the core. When a few capitalists hoard essential goods, the entire economic balance is destroyed. The natural system of supply and demand is disrupted and transformed into an artificial crisis, the burden of which falls most heavily on the poor and middle class. This is economic terrorism. It causes the following losses to the economy:
Causes of Hoarding Behavior
When a small group of people starts to control essential goods, the balance of fair trade is disrupted. These individuals take advantage of public needs, turning scarcity into business opportunities. As a result, the negative effects spread throughout society, and the entire economy begins to be affected.
1. The supply and demand system deteriorates
The most basic principle of the economy is that the balance between the availability of goods in the market and the needs of the people should be maintained, but when hoarders make things disappear from the market, a shortage arises in the market. People become anxious and restless; even an ordinary thing becomes a precious treasure. As a result, prices are artificially increased, while in reality the goods are overflowing in the warehouses. The people realize that everything is running out, and this fear gives rise to more purchases, which deepens the crisis.
2. Inflation spirals out of control
When hoarding increases, prices start skyrocketing out of control. No matter how hard the government tries, public confidence does not return. People take to the streets to protest and stage sit-ins against inflation, which creates political instability in the country. Due to sit-ins and protests, entire cities become jammed, businesses close, transport stops, and access to hospitals becomes difficult. That is, not only does inflation increase, but the entire system of life is paralyzed. This political crisis and chaos are a poison for the country's economy.
3. Investment stops
When the market becomes unfair and a mafia of some capitalists takes over the prices, honest traders start leaving the field. They fear that if they buy at high prices and do business at the mercy of the market, they will lose, while hoarders have already ensured their victory by buying in large quantities. As a result, competition in the market disappears, new businesses stop being established, investment in the country stops, and unemployment increases. When business confidence is broken, the body of the economy becomes weak like dry wood and starts to break.
4. Black marketing and promotion of crime
Hoarding opens the door to the black market. Goods are hidden away in wholesale and then secretly sold at double the price. Legal businesses are paralyzed while illegal businesses flourish. In such an environment, there is no place for principles, law, and humanity.
Imagine warehouses full of goods on one side and people standing in queues in the market on the other, but still returning empty-handed. This situation creates intense anger and hatred among the people, which leads to social conflict and crime increases in the country.
5. The wheel of national development is stalled
When there is no system to stop hoarding and profiteers become strong, then government policies remain limited to paper. The wheel of development stops because:
- Business is unbalanced
- Industry weak
- Exports decrease
- The value of the rupee falls
- Dependence on loans increases
A country that loses economic independence also loses political independence. Hoarding puts the country at a point where the people get tired of fighting inflation and the country falls behind in the race for development.
In simple words
Hoarding undermines the foundations of a country and pushes the entire nation into economic slavery.
The psychological aspect of hoarding: mental illness or greed?
According to psychology, hoarding is not just a business strategy. It is the result of several negative psychological illnesses hidden within a person:
1. Desire for power and control
The hoarder wants things to come to market according to his wishes.
It is a thirst for superiority and rule within him.
2. Death of apathy and guilt
He sees his profit in the crying and hunger of others.
He is not a human being, he becomes a slave to money.
3. Dangerous temptation
The psychology of greed tells us that when a person considers wealth to be everything, then he does not consider oppression to be oppression.
4. The illusion of insecurity
Some people hoard more and more out of unnecessary fear. They are afraid that if things run out, what will happen to me? Will I get the things or not? Therefore, keeping in mind personal interests, they remain in this unnecessary fear.
5. The false connection between wealth and peace
The hoarder thinks that increasing wealth will make life better.
But greed never ends.
As addiction increases, so does greed.
Religious perspective: Hoarding is a major sin in every religion
Human civilization is made up of many religions, each of which has forbidden cruelty, greed, and the destruction of the rights of society. Hoarding is most strictly prohibited in Islam, but surprisingly, it is clearly a bad and undesirable practice in other religions as well.
Hoarding in Islam
Islam prohibits hoarding. Hoarding says and it is not only inhuman but Allah's displeasure It tells the reason.
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him said:
"Whoever withholds grain for forty days in order to increase prices, he is displeased with Allah and Allah is displeased with him."
Islam says:
Sustenance is a trust from Allah.
Denying society's rights is an invitation to God's wrath.
The state must punish hoarders.
The Rashidun Caliphs showed no leniency in raiding warehouses, controlling prices, and fining hoarders.
Christianity
Injustice, greed, and stealing bread from the needy in Christianity Moral catastrophe is equal to.
The Bible says:
He who amasses wealth by withholding what others need cannot escape God's justice.
According to Christian teachings:
Wealth is a blessing from God.
It is a great injustice to withhold it from others.
He who violates the rights of the poor is guilty in the eyes of God.
Judaism
In Judaism, law is based on "Tzedakah" meaning justice and charity.
According to Jewish law:
It is strictly forbidden to raise prices by hoarding food.
Withholding things that belong to the poor The worst sin Is
The Jewish jurisprudence "Talmud" states that profiting from the suffering of society invites God's wrath.
Hinduism
Hoarding in Hinduism Destruction of karmas It is considered the cause.
According to Hinduism:
A person who makes life difficult for others
He has to suffer the consequences of his actions in this life or the next.
The principle is the same here:
If the accumulation of wealth involves injustice, it is the worst kind of kindness.
Withholding something necessary is a religiously impure act.
Regardless of religion:
Hoarding is inhumane, immoral, and a path to spiritual destruction.
It's not just a crime, Cursing equipment Is.
Global and Government Laws: How does the world view hoarding?
All modern countries in the world have adopted hoarding. Illegal That is, they consider it an illegal crime.
The laws include the following measures:
- Prison
- Heavy fines
- Distribution of confiscated property to the public
- Business license cancellation
- Company closure
Under the "Essential Commodities Act" in most countries including Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and India:
Hoarding food, medicine, fuel, and essential items is a punishable offense.
The United Nations has also made it clear in its economic policies that:
- Artificial Shortage
- Black Marketing
- Hoarding
All of this has a negative impact on world peace and economic balance.
A nation that compromises with hoarders
She invites hunger and crime into her home.
The solution to hoarding: a shared responsibility of society, government, and the individual
The government needs strict laws and immediate implementation.
Constant raids against secret warehouses
Public awareness
Bringing the truth to light on social media
Everyone should shop according to their needs.
Religious leaders should openly condemn this atrocity.
Media should show the truth, not bow to the powers that be.
When the people stand up
So no mafia can survive.
Last important result
Hoarding is not just a game of money.
This is faith, morality, humanity, society and economy.
Everything is ruined.
Who builds a palace on the hunger of others
One day that palace
It burns in the fire of his curses.
We have to decide:
We will support hoarders.
Or of an oppressed nation?
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