Philosophy & Culture

Eid Mubarak, the Eid ul Fitr is the greatest Eid festival for Muslims, who observe this with religious devotion all around the Muslim world. It comes after a month long fasting every year, according to Quranic scriptures. Allah revealed the Quran through his messenger Hajrat Muhammad (PUH) in different times in different contexts. Eid means joy, happiness. Its cultural significance is also magnificent. In every society or culture it takes different looks, festivity, gravity and practices. As Bangladeshi muslims are converted muslims, though devout in religious practice, happened to develop a syncretic style of culture ,as it is a blend of muslim culture and local cultural heritage. Most of the muslim start their days with prayers to Allah before dawn, and take sweetmeats as breakfast, then they take bath, wear new dress, use perfumes, distribute money to impoverished people, offer gifts to kith and kins. Then they move to mosque, after prayers often hear special Eid-Khutba or speach of...

Some times I recall my days, I passed in university gossiping, debating, reading, roaming, wandering, searching, researching...and what not. It was a time when everything could be done with passion and emotional temperament. I aspired to be many thing, but history has a linear destiny. We are likely to accept the reality other than not, in the long run. Grooming, career, personality building, and many more we were preoccupied with while hardly had chance to be ruined by political hooliganism. An idealist aptitude and vision we nurtured, for romantic view was imprinted in our rural psyche. Everywhere we had to pay price for that. A third world experimentation of systems had debacled few opportunities we deserved. We are progeny of an immature generation . Though we lost our innumerable prospect at the inception of career, still time remains ahead to fix a trajectory in future.