Have you ever give your money to beggar on the street? Do you believe if they're not lie? It's all up to you whether you give or no your money to beggar. Here is some of my opinion about that thing.
Nowadays, almost in every public place there are so many beggars. It is not a strange thing anymore. Even the beggars seems more and more each day. Sometime, their look is so miserable, so people will feel sympathy to them and give them money. More people who give money, more beggars will stay in every public place. That is what always happened. Giving money is one of philanthropy activity, but it will be bad if it is done to beggars. Giving money to beggar will not help them, not only making them lazy but also making it possible that the money would be given to wrong person. Then, it might result in increasing crime.
In the first place, giving money to beggars will make them lazy. They are habitual to beg to people. They will not try to find another job for their better life. They think, just by begging, they can make a lot of money. They just stay in a public place and ask money to people who pass in front of them. How easy they got money. In some cases, there are some beggars who make begging as their job. What do you feel if beggars whom usually you give money have bigger income than yours? You must feel so regretful for giving them money. But, that what is happening now. Their income from begging is more than other people’s income who work in office. For example, in Jakarta, there is a beggar who comes from Madura. His name is Cahyo[1]. He can get money as much as two hundred thousand rupiah in a day. It means, in a month, he can get more or less six millions rupiah. That is of course not a little number. Whereas in Islam, earn money by begging, but still able to work is not allowed. Because it cause lazy and make beggars lazy to work even though they can. So that, if you give your money to beggars, you let them keep their laziness.
Second, giving money to beggars makes possible that the money would be given to wrong person. Nowadays, to differentiate which is real beggar or fake beggar is a difficult thing. Some beggars pretend to be very poor by wearing bad clothes and making their face, hair and hands as dirty as they can. Even there are beggars who make fake scar on their body or pretend to make their body stump to make people feel pity to them, so they can get more money. Some beggars also pretend to be blind, so people will think no more chance for them to take any job. Besides given to fake beggars, our money also may be given to beggars who spend their money for drugs. They spend all of their money for drugs because they addictive to it and for keeping themselves alive, they must buy drugs by more money. People who give money to them means let them continue their bad habit and harm themselves. Giving money to beggars is also making possible that the money would be given to person who contribute their money to crime. They may use the money for buy some alcohol then they do criminal thing under their consciousness.
The third effect from giving money to beggars is it will increase crime. Giving money to beggars will make a lot of deception. For example, beggars who pretend asking money for charity for orphans. They bring all of property such as pictures, proposal, or some letters to make people sure with what they have said. Giving money to beggars makes children exploitation increase. People will be more sympathetic to kid beggars than old beggars. Because of that, so many parents make their children become a beggar to earn more money. Sometimes, their baby also became their property to get more sympathy from people. So, people will give them more money. It is bad for their baby’s growing because their baby must sniff air pollution every single day. Moreover, nowadays so many babies are rented for begging like in Semarang[2]. Beggar who wants to bring baby for getting more money, just rent the baby from baby rent and pay the payment. Children violence also will increase. It happened because sometimes children, who do not want to beg like what their parents ask, get cruel traits from their parents. There is also children violence that caused by scramble area between fellow beggars. So indirectly, giving money to beggars can become a dangerous thing.
