A well-known religious personality, deeply immersed in politics, asked the leader of a big neighboring Arab country to renovate the graves of some religious symbols in his country as a blessing to get closer to God.
It is said that leader’s response was polite. He said the policy of his government, for decades, considered attachment to anything other than God was unacceptable and that building shrines only means theft of money of the poor by those who supervise these shrines, or ends up in the pockets of politicians who provide the security to these places.

They continue to spend part of the money collected on the continued ignorance of the public to facilitate control of them and their communities, so that the process of zakat, alms and donations continue to flow and the number of visitors to those places increases, seeking blessings for health, longevity, healing from diseases, treatment of infertility, and other things that are only for blind dedication to ignorance and persistence of underdevelopment.
The leader added it is better to spend money on building homes for the living, instead of paying attention to the graves of the dead, and paying attention to building infrastructure, building and maintaining roads, and providing necessary services such as electricity and water for the nation’s homes instead of imams, and most importantly spending without limits on developing education.
The politician cleric left the meeting empty-handed without adding anything to his huge balances in the banks of European countries.
Any visitor to shrines in dozens of cities, Islamic in particular, see lack of cleanliness which has reached a frightening level, a general feature that shocks the eye and the mind from the moment they enter these places.
There are also many beggars and people with severe physical disabilities, which are sometimes, deliberate to solicit money from the gullible and those looking for wages in their afterlife.
We also find women beggars often with sleeping infants in their arms, because of the anesthesia injections they receive deliberately which makes them permanently mentally handicapped, and this is documented in the police records of those cities.

It is unfortunate that despite all the alms, zakat and huge donations collected in these places, none of their collectors ever thought of sweeping the streets of these cities and collecting the accumulated garbage in an organized manner, or building simple health facilities and preventing beggary on their streets.
They never thought of sheltering the physically handicapped beggars in care homes, and this is what a visitor to these places dreams of.
As for the question about the reason for the lack of schools and colleges, it is a luxury and close to imagination, and the strangest thing is to ask about the reason for the lack of universities, even the modest ones, in these places. Here, the reason is well-known.

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By Ahmad alsarraf