Comments on: ‘Maids, servants and pets not allowed’

By: sunny borah

sunny borah — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:59:31 +0000

why you folks bring relegion into everything?

By: Saeed

Saeed — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:50:49 +0000

First of Caesar is even before Christ. And secondly this is call socialism or communism which Muslim fought against in Afghanistan .

By: Saeed

Saeed — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:47:27 +0000

I saw ex army general and ex sephai traveling in same PIA flight . It’s a money which make difference finally. In western countries I have no excess in many high end country club, and also every events there is always VIP entry and other is for commoner. Please stop giving fancy stories about America .

By: Hassed

Hassed — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:24:54 +0000

Inequality in islam

By: FJ Siddiqui

FJ Siddiqui — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:42:22 +0000

I am supporter of uniformity in treating all humans in terms of their self esteem and basic needs. However, grooming up people from this deprived section of the society will take time and a change in mindset of ‘cultured’ section of the society. Till that time neither it is possible nor appropriate to bring the household helpers really become part of the family. By the way when everyone gets educated enough then household helpers become hard to find…. example is Singapore where maids are ‘imported’ mostly from Indonesia & Philippines, but as education is improving there as well, I don’t know what will be their source in future. We must get ready to do our chores ourselves.

By: Danyal

Danyal — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:33:35 +0000

that’s not entirely true. There are a certain amount of restaurants which allow pets in North America and Europe.

By: Muhammad

Muhammad — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:27:59 +0000

I don’t think that eating or not eating with servants is important – it is just symbolic. What is important is how you treat them. I have seen people treating their servants badly. They have no respect for them. They don’t talk to them the same way as they talk to their family members. Some even beat them. The servants do their job and get paid. There is no reason to treat them in an insulting manner.

By: Zeeshan

Zeeshan — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:21:03 +0000

Living in London for almost a decade now, I feel the biggest difference is that people serving us here are treated with dignity and respect. They may not earn as much as the ones who employ them but the people show courtesy by looking at the waiters, taxi drivers and cleaners in the eye and thanking them for their work. Our own cleaner and gardener sit on the same table and eat with us the same food.

I must say, I never saw even educated corporate well travelled frequent flyers doing that in Pakistan. No wonder Pakistanis are willing to drive taxis and do jobs in restaurants in Europe and North America but not in their own country.

By: Muhammad

Muhammad — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:16:46 +0000

It is a little odd. The prophet ate with his slave Bilal for sake of equality, but Bilal still remained a slave. Was not slavery also forbidden for sake of eqauality?

By: khalid

khalid — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:01:15 +0000

Sir Butt you would be surprised but there are people in the world especially in the real Muslim, where I have seen maids eating on the same table with the employers. Travel in same class when they travel and have rooms that might not be palaces but a lot better and comfortable than maids would have. BTW you might even check in US this fair and loving treatment that our beloved Prophet practiced is done there too along with the Arab world.