A dialogue between two friends on dowry system
    JahangirWhat's your opinion about dowry?
     
    Shamim : Opinion in what sense?
     
    Jahangir It's very plain. Whether it is a blessing or curse?
     
    Shamim : Actually, it was a blessing but in our age it has become a curse.
     
    Jahangir I am not following you.
     
    Shamim : I mean, when it started, its purpose was to help to an extent the newly married couple.
     
    Jahangir : Do you know when this thing started?
     
    Shamim : I am not clear about but this was there in the ear of the Holy Prophet.
     
    Jahangir : Then, it must be a good thing.
     
    Shamim : It must be rather it is .
     
    Jahangir : Then what's wrong with it?
     
    Shamim : The only defect is the way we are following it.
     
    Jahangir : Don't you think things change with the passage of time?
     
    Shamim : Yes, they do but it must be a positive change.
     
    Jahangir Change is change whether it is positive or negative.
     
    Shamim : You tell me why people say dowry is a curse?
     
    Jahangir Perhaps because it has lost its very spirit.
     
    Shamim : That's the point.
     
    Jahangir : Most of us say that it is a curse but even then.......
     
    Shamim : That's what the tragedy is.
     
    Jahangir : It means we have double standards.
     
    Shamim : Sure rather triple.
     
    Jahangir Why do we spend so much money on this?
     
    Shamim : Obviously just to show off.
     
    Jahangir Isn't it injustice with the poor?
     
    Shamim It's extreme sort of injustice.
     
    Jahangir When I get married. I won't ask for it.
     
    Shamim I too didn't accept dowry.
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