President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today greeted the countrymen as well as the Muslim Ummah across the globe on the occasion of holy Eid-ul-Fitr, one of the biggest religious festivals of the Muslims.
In a message on the holy Eid-ul-Fitr, the greatest religious festival of the Muslim Ummah, the President called upon countrymen to celebrate the Eid festival maintaining health rules and social distancing with utmost caution.
“The Eid-ul-Fitr of this year is being celebrated in a different situation due to outbreak of COVID-19 . . . Stay sound and try to keep others well – would be the expectation of this year’s Eid celebration” he said.
Abdul Hamid said, “Eid-ul-Fitr is one of the main religious festivals of the Muslims. Eid-ul-Fitr brings the message of happiness after the month-long fasting and practice of self-restraint. It is a joyous day when the joy is spread out amongst all and in all parts of the villages, Bengal and in the whole world.”
In another message, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina prayed for continued peace, progress and prosperity of the country’s people and the Muslim Ummah.
The premier said the Eid promotes peace, sympathy and brotherhood, and it ties people with the bond of equity, friendship and harmony forgetting animosity and violence.
She hoped that the practice of self-purification, restraint, amity and harmony of the Muslims in personal, family, social and state life would spread everywhere.
“Let the life of all people be filled with the happiness of the Eid,” Sheikh Hasina said, wishing happiness, peace and welfare of all people across the world.
“We are celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr amid an abnormal environment. The whole world stands still due to coronavirus. The normal life is halted. An invisible virus puts the life of people at risk,” she said.
She simultaneously prayed to the Almighty Allah for early relief of the country from the contagious coronavirus and continued peace, progress and development of Bangladesh as well as the Muslim Ummah.