Population – A Human Resource OR Liability

Population a human source

ALLAH (SWT), THE MOST MERCIFUL AND BENEFICENT.

Population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same area. Human resource is the set of individuals who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector or an economy. In this essay I would like to make it clear that population is not burden but it is human resource.

This earth is a marvelous organism, it has amazing powers of life and restoration, and it is quite capable of sustaining life for many billions of people and has for centuries. If the quality of life is suffering due to an increase in population it has nothing to do with the population growth itself, but rather with the way that people choose to live, which is often in selfishness and disdain for others. If this were not the case the quality of life would never suffer because of population increasing.

Many social scientists blame Pakistan’s overgrown population on the country’s social and economic backwardness. But, again, a huge population can prove to be a nation’s biggest asset as well. For the all-round progress of a large nation, it is essential that its entire people contribute significantly to diverse areas and sectors of the economy—like agriculture, service industry, construction and other industries, to name a few. The talented and hardworking people of a nation can emerge as a highly competitive human resource.

Birth control is forbidden in Islam if resorted to for fear of poverty. Allah says, “Don’t kill your children for fear of poverty; it is We who provide sustenance for them and you; verily killing them is a most heinous crime!” (Al-Isra’: 31). After reflecting on this verse, scholars have concluded that practising birth control for fear of large population and poverty is unlawful since it implies weakness of faith and trust in Allah as the Provider and Sustainer of all beings.

Population can be used as an asset if we have an attitude. We can convert it in an asset by planning a good system of classification and sending people to various fields, as per their qualifications. We need to provide better education system .
First of all, a developing country needs a high population to support its economy, because manpower is the most important element in economic growth.

Second, a developing country that has a large population will bring more human resources because a large population can produce many kinds of talents and experts to help a country flourish.

Third, a large population can also attract more foreign investment, because it can create lots of dividends for investors.  A large population represents the fact that more goods and services are consumed, because people need to spend money on their needs, which will increase investors’ financial investment.

So, at the end it is recommended that we need not to fear from increasing growth rate rather than we should have to concentrate on converting this population in a human source for progress and development by giving them good education and healthy environment.