SOCIAL WORK

49. Social Work ~ 146 ~ blessings and mercy for both of us (the helper and the receiver). By engaging oneself in social work, one is not only helping another but is actually raising his own moral status. Making use of one’s possessions only for oneself is to live on the plane of animals, for the beasts share nothing with others. Man, superior to all other creatures, lives on a far higher plane. The proper attitude in accordance with his status is not to keep himself to himself but to embrace the whole of humanity. He should lead his life as a well wisher to all, ready to help everyone, accepting others’ rights over his own possessions. Social work is in other words, service to humanity. And after the worship of God, no task is nobler.