Unit-2 - Labours And People's Right - Reading Comprehension - Dignity Of Work - Words/Meaning and Summary

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Unit-2 - Labours And People's Right
Reading Comprehension
Dignity Of Work

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Words / Meaning

S.NO.	Words	Meanings
1.	Advanced	Progressive
2.	Ashamed	Embarrassed or guilty because of one's actions, abashed, Feeling shame
3.	Charity	Generosity
4.	Celebrities	Famous person
5.	Companion	Friend
6.	Corn	Cereal
7.	Cross	In a bad mood, Angry
8.	Cupboard	Shelved cabinet
9.	Customer	Client
10.	Deliver	Distribute
11.	Discrimination	The unjust or prejudicial treatment
12.	Dignity	Respect, Prestige
13.	Ditch	Trench
14.	Dustbin	Metal containing for rubbish
15.	Empty	Vacant
16.	Example	For instance, sample
17.	Extremely	To a very great degree
18.	Favourite	Specially liked, Preferences, Dearest, Popular
19.	Fetched	Went for and brought back, to go and bring
20.	Forget	Not remember
21.	Ground	Make powder
22.	Human beings	Mankind
23.	Inferior	or quality
24.	Inspiring	Having the act of inspiring someone, Encourage
25.	Labour	Hard work
26.	Mended	Repair
27.	Mental	Lowly unskilled work
28.	Motivated	Give incentive for action
29.	Motto	Slogan-catchword
30.	Mud	Clay
31.	Needy	Poor
32.	Neighbour	One who lives close
33.	Noble	Pious
34.	Odd	Strange
35.	Official	Government officers
36.	Philosophy	A theory orb attitude
37.	Progress	Advancement
38.	Quietly	Silently
39.	Repaired	Past tense of repair, mended
40.	Sack	Bag
41.	Social	Friendly
42.	Service	Work
43.	Superior	High in rank, status or quality
44.	Swept	Past tense pf sweep, To clean, Broom
45.	Transcribe	Write
46.	Treat	Behave towards somebody
47.	Trench	Ditch
48.	Untidy	Dirty
49.	Wages	Salary
50.	Widow	A woman whose husband is dead

Short note Or Summary on DIGNITY OF WORK

One day Akhtar came late from the school and he was in angry mood. When mother inquired of him, he did not answer. At the lunch time his uncle Mr. Inayat came to visit them. At the inquiry of his uncle he explained that, social work week was being observed in his school and his teacher asked him to do inferior work. Mr. Inayat asked him whether their teacher did any work. He told him that his class teacher swept the class room and Head Master cleaned the bath room. Mr. Inayat told him that when his teacher had not felt insulted by doing inferior work, he should not have any cause for grumbling. Then he gave the example of the Holy Prophet (peace by upon him) who felt pride in doing work with his own blessed hands. He further told him that his companion were also liked him and followed him. Hazrat Abu Bakar worked for widows and old neighbour. Hazrat Omar and Hazrat Ali did labour work. Hazrat Fatima did house hold work with her own hands. Caliph Omar bin Abdul Aziz refused to hire a servant to help his wife. Sultan Nasir-uddin earned his living by making caps and Emperor Aurangzeb by transcribing Holy Quran. Their uncle also told them that in China and America people do not feel shame in doing inferior work. Even high officials do so. After hearing such things Akhtar also realized his mistake and promised that he would not feel shame in doing work with his own hands in the future.

OR

There is a physical attitude regarding manual works i.e. doing minor work is contrary to one's status or dignity. This feeling or attitude has deeply got rooted in our society. This attitude needs to be changed. Akhtar got angry because the teacher made him dust the cupboard and the desk, during the social service work at school. He thought that it was servant's work to clean the cupboard and the desk. This made him cross. However, when his uncle, Mr. Inayat came to visit his family, he was not cross any more. Mr. Inayat told him about the dignity of work. He told that the advanced countries have learnt the dignity of work. Everybody works there. They are not ashamed of doing work while we avoid doing work.
He said that our Prophet (Peace Be Upon him) and his companions did their work with their own hands. Akhtar understood the dignity of work and promised not to mind working with his hands in the future.