Proficiency English: Money Is The Root Of Evil

Money is not the root of injustice. The root of injustice comes out of of the wickedness of man and his love for money. It is mans greed and immoral ways that have perverted and uprooted the basic principles for which the idea of money had been originally devised for. Money seems to be the driving force in many people's lives. However, I do not agree that money is the root of all evil. Money in itself is harmless. It is but a medium of exchange in trade. it is the love of money that can lead to evil.

Money becomes a person's master if that person values material possessions above everything else. Many people do not realize that they are enslaved by money. However, you know they are when making money is the top priority in their lives. They work long hours every day and have no time for their families or friends. This often leads to marital problems, broken homes, neglected children, loneliness and much misery.

There are people who love money more than they value life -- whether it is another's or their own. Such people are ruthless, reckless and dangerous. As long as they can have monetary gain, they would not hesitate to rob, to destroy and to kill. These people are capable of all kinds of evil.

Money is the root of all evil but the truth is, it is the other way round if one lacks of it. People nowadays are easily influenced to negative things around us. For instance, one can turn into an evil – minded person so much so that a crime could be committed, due to money. To a certain extend, he or she would commit an offence just for the sake of having money. At times, as we often read from the media, murders committed are seldom related to this similar motivate money. Plus the famous American author, Louisa May Alcolt once say that “money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more that we potatoes”.

Furthermore money is a source of stress. Why stress? Because money lead us to debt. When getting older, slowly and more we will be tied to debt as example, a student that continue study at any institute already had a permanent debt it lead to an extreme stress when the student need to pay back the loan. Now days, our currency is getting lower, hence our expenditure became more higher than ever it became a burden to unaffordable people.

Money can buy men as it does things. Thus money play an important role in fighting and winning elections. Money mars men's and women's morals. It is the evil influence in corrupting peoples. 'Sell out' is the new term used for bribery. There are people who could do anything for the sake of money. Moneyed people can buy many things which the poor cannot do.

With the power of money individuals as well as states can dictate terms. The Middle East countries have found new wealth because of their oil deposits and they have become a very powerful group.

This kind of power should not go to one's head. One should remember that the money coming into him was by chance. He must not use it for evil purposes. But wherever there is evil there is usually money involved. Other motivating forces for evil action are jealousy, vengeance, hatred and so on.

Money make individuals forgot the relationship between ALLAH and human. People thought money is something that important until they forgot in their live have more people should be the most important in their live. They are our family members.This is because without them there will be no happiness in our live. Family is everything,the most precious things in our live. But nowadays, most of people put work at the first important things because with working they will gain money. Next, when working they will forget their responsibility for the orders of ALLAH, such as perform our prayer. worldly, many of us become slaves of money compared to the righteous servants of Allah. Among the factors that cause them to become slaves of money is because they want a life of luxury in the world. But they forget that they are poor Afterlife.

As a conclusion, time has gone, when we valued a person in evaluated of his moral and ethical values. People were earlier known in terms of their ranking in the list of rich of the world. Money has become the centre of all activities. For our remind, money and muscle power have become essential ingredients of a successful political leader.