Unholy alliance in the holy month
The holy month of Ramadan is like a month-long divine training programme for the Muslims who are taught not only to abstain from food at day time, but also to keep themselves aloof from all sorts of greed and lust, to shun all nastiness in thoughts and actions and to develop and nourish in themselves the virtues of righteousness, honesty, benevolence and aversion to extravagance and worldly pleasure. But it is a matter of great regret that during this holy month Bangladesh, overwhelmingly a Muslim majority country, becomes a happy 'hunting ground' for the businessmen who swoop on the helpless consumers to squeeze out money by intentionally hiking up the prices of all essentials. Producers, hoarders, wholesalers, middlemen, retailers -- all of them seem to have formed an unwritten alliance among themselves for shameless profiteering taking advantage of the increased demand of essential commodities.
No government in our country has ever been seen to have taken stringent measures to undo this 'unholy alliance' of unscrupulous traders. We, the common people can only pray to Almighty Allah to shower blessings on our businessmen so that they can realise the futility and irreligiousness of illegal and immoral money-making by profiteering in the holy month of Ramadan.
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