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EPILOGUE
 
 

In preparing this talk, I have tried to be impartial and objective without letting my association with the community affect the facts and figures presented here. In most of the cases, I have picked up the facts and figures from authentic books and articles written by non-Memon scholars.  

 

I will urge my Memon brothers and sisters to not to be apologestic because at one time, our community controlled a major portion of country’s economy or because we were dubbed as capitalist.  You should be proud to be part of this community. It earned and established business and industrial enterprises but unlike others they reploughed   their profits and earnings into building more industries providing more employment to our country men on the one hand and saving or earning badly needed foreign exchange for the country. They were the people who helped the country in earning exemplary economic growth. It was because of their enterprising spirit that Pakistan was cited as a Model for developing countries. Mr. A. Sattar Parekh has coined a very realistic name for the community by describing them as “Enterprising Philanthropists”. It is unfortunate that we have not compiled the statistics of the amount spent by the community on welfare of masses but the examples of educational and medical Institutions given by me provide you with sufficient indication of it. So let us be proud to be Memons – Let us be proud to be part of a community of Enterprising Philanthropists.

 

Finally let me tell you that we all have to strive to maintain our identity as a Memon. The Memoni – the language, we speak is the source of our identity. It is our duty to develop this into a full fledged written language. I have already written and published a detailed article on the subject and you will be pleased that many of our community journals have started publishing articles in Memoni written in Roman Script. The Memon Alam and Memon Bulletin of Karachi, Memon Welfare of Bombay and Memon Bulletin of U.K. have carried such articles in some of their issues.

 

Some people try to ridicule us by saying that a Memons chooses a direction which gives him advantage of two rupees. This may be true but it is half truth.  The whole truth is that Memon “earns to give”. You must have heard the age old saying that when a Memon has only a small quantity of oil which can light the only lamp in his house and finds that there is darkness in the neighboring Mosque, he will prefer to light the lamp of the mosque with his oil keeping his own house in dark. This is the spirit of Memon and my brothers & sisters, you belong to that community - The community of Enterprising Philanthropists.