Welcome Indian cricket team
We welcome the Indian cricket team in our country and are looking forward for an exciting, amazing, charming and lovely cricket series between the two countries. On paper, the visitors are stronger in every department of cricket and the players will play their best to prove their superiority.
Contrarily, the Bangladeshi players will use their stamina, perseverance, teamwork and conviction garnered from the series with Pakistan a month ago. Let us wait for who win finally.
Ahmed Shah
Dhaka.
Avoid wrong interpretation
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Dhakeswari Temple and the Ram Krishna Mission on Sunday – the second and last day of his state visit to Bangladesh and thereby exposed his firm belief in Hinduism. The same day in the afternoon, the Indian foreign secretary quoted Narendra Modi to have expressed his view to Khaleda Zia of his strong opposition to ‘fundamentalism’, but love for democracy. The Indian foreign secretary did not, however, define fundamentalism.
Whether it is defined or not, we are sure that the Indian PM did not refer the word to the ‘mass religion conversion campaign launched by few extremist Hindu organisations in India. In this context, if we call the people to act on the Verses No. 181, 182 and 183 of Surah Shuara, Al-Quran, shall we be called fundamentalists? The implicit meaning of these three verses is that Islam aims at establishing such a society as no man shall exploit another and that justice shall prevail every where. The texts of the verses are:
“Give a full measure, and be not of those who give (one) less (than his due).” “Weigh things with a right balance.” “Wrong not men of their things, and act not corruptly in the land, making mischief.”
Again, if we say, ‘work according to your ability,’ with reference to Karl Marx, we shall not be blamed or called fundamentalists. But when we shall quote the said statement with reference to the Verse No. 135, Surah Anam, Al-Quran, we are recognised as fundamentalists. May we ask, why?
Ameer Hamzah
Dhaka
