Cult of ad hoc policies

It is acceptable if the small daily practical details of essential public requirements and daily services are sorted out. The policy-making offices can go on a 2-day break, but not all the day to day services (operation and maintenance, like the essential utility services which are open 24 hours).

Shift duties, at least six days a week, may be introduced as and when needed; and the staff concerned may be given off days sometime during the week (like night post offices, for example).

Islam is a practical and simplified religion, and the remembrance of the Almighty Lord can go in macro and micro modes, even while performing one's daily mundane duties. A baby won't understand if it finds that he/she is loved in different ways on different days of the week, at different times (the mania for insisting on religious rituals). There should be no extremism in religious practices. We pray to the Creator, and not to the human spiritual leaders; and the latter cannot sit over (divine) judgement.

The philosophy (approach to an issue) of ibadat comes first, before getting lost in the details (as in the forests!). Our political leadership, to whom we millions of citizens are hostages, should reflect on the long-term effects of policies (the nation comes first, then the party or self-survival of politicians).

Our politics are utterly under-developed, and foreigners cannot provide technical assistance. Nowadays there is a tendency to do hair-splitting on religious practices ("I am a better Muslim than you are"!). We have too many tutorials and phony guardians! Beware of the dangerous mis: religion and politics (or, politics and religion).

Is Bangladesh going to become another Palestine or Vietnam in the next few decades? Look at what is happening in Iraq, and the non-Muslim pressures on Iran and other ME countries. OIC has yet to set up beacons for navigation.