Why can't we be united?
We celebrated the biggest festival of the Muslim Ummah throughout the whole country two weeks ago. Eid-ul- Azha brings us together. It lets us show harmony, unity, cooperation and mutual respect to each other irrespective of chaos and broken relationships among people. At least during Eid we tend to invite, welcome and above all receive each other in a warm, decent and sincere way. In fact, most of the people of our country are Muslims and Bangladesh is well known as a liberal country in terms of religion around the world. It means that people from all religions have no problem in observing or performing their sacred activities. However, as soon as any religious festival is over we seem to have swift changes within ourselves. We become kind of self-seeking and constantly busy satisfying our own interests. My write up is not to educate or criticise people or a group of individuals. I am a student and like others I come across a question very often that if we can behave well with one another and become so kind, supportive and hospitable during religious occasions such as Eid, Puja, Christmas, Buddha Purnima etc to each other, so why we can't retain our mutual respect, unity, determination and good deeds in building the nation towards development, peace, prosperity afterwards…?? Therefore as a spokesperson of the new generation, I would like to request people from all walks of life that lately we observed EID-UL-AZHA in a peaceful manner; let us prolong this momentum.
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