Time to uphold the spirit of the occasion
We are celebrating Eid this year in the backdrop of a tragedy that has shaken the nation, a time our most happy festival comes on the occasion of grief. It is indeed a moment for sombre reflection and prayers. We share the agony and the pain of those who have lost their loved ones and pray that the Almighty bestow His choicest Blessings on them.
It is a time also to call out to those who have chosen the path of terror that violence is an anathema to the very religion they claim they are fighting for. For their sponsors and the supporters of such ideology, we ask what the lives of these 20 innocent people have done to further their cause. Killing of innocents is abhorrent to Islam; we call upon the derailed youths to shun the path of violence.
It is also time to reflect whether we have been able to imbibe the true spirit of the holy month in our lives. The teaching of Ramadan should be reflected not only for a month of the year but in our day to day life too. Unfortunately, some of us do everything to transgress its true meaning like hiking prices of essentials irrationally and by ostentatious and wasteful expenditure. Such acts, we believe, do little to espouse the true spirit of Islam.
Let us turn our celebration into introspection as to why such a tragedy befell us and how to prevent such an incident from repeating in the future. It is also time to embrace one another forgetting all differences and ill-feelings in the spirit of brotherhood, which should be the stepping stone towards forming a broad-based national unity against terrorism.
Eid Mubarak to our valued readers and well wishers.
Source: The Daily Star
