Al-Marsad newspaper: Writer Reham Zamka recounted the details of a situation she was exposed to in a supermarket.
Zamke said through her article, “Come after the prayer,” published in the Okaz newspaper: “A few days ago, I was shopping in a famous “supermarket”, and the time for prayer began while I was still inside the store. Follow him to open the back door for me to get out of!”
And she added: “I was surprised by the closure of the shop in the first place, especially since it is large and most of the workers “clear their palate” with each other, and others are sitting on their mobiles “no work, no business.” And before the worker opened the door for me, I told him: Why are you closing the shop? He said to me a prayer !” .
And she continued, “I asked him: What prevents you from praying? Your number is large, and you and the rest of your colleagues can take turns to perform the prayer instead of (sideburns) and tamper with your mobile phones and disrupt people’s interests, and get them out of the back gates as if they are like thieves! Then he opened the door for me to get out, and she was standing Outside, a respectable and old lady said to him politely: “May God be pleased with you, my son, but I want a real life!” He scolded her and tried to shut the door in her face, telling her: “Come after prayer, after prayer!”
And she continued, “Of course, this situation happened in front of me, and it was unfortunate that my morals at that time were commercial, and the evidence is this article. This is a woman of your mother’s age, then I pushed the door while I was leaving and said to her: Go ahead, Aunty, and she came in while she was praying for me.
She revealed: “The long-tongued worker came back and argued with me, but prayer is more important than living! So I asked him with my eyebrows up my head, and what does this have to do with this: “Who told you not to pray?” Prayer (O Falih)!”.
Zamke added: “It seems that he tried to preserve what was left of his face and dignity, and he is already gone.”
She explained: “Of course, after the Federation of Saudi Chambers generalized to continue opening shops during prayer times, and engaging in commercial and economic activities throughout working hours, the problem has become in some shops that are still closed during prayer times. If you are the owner of a business and you want to close it during prayer times, this It is your right, but you have to control your workers, and make sure that they actually take advantage of the times of prayers for them, and not for sideburns, smoking and (cracking) on their mobiles, so that they do not disrupt your interests and the interests of the people inside or waiting outside!”
She concluded by saying: “Demanding that shops not be closed at the time of prayer does not mean at all a demand to cancel prayer, and – God forbid – as some explain, but if the time for prayer begins, workers can take turns simply and each individual fulfills his duty, because some shops are difficult to close, especially if It was service, such as pharmacies, gas stations, and so on.”
In any case; I will go and buy brial bread from the same supermarket tomorrow, right before Maghrib prayer, not out of love for life but stubbornness in the world!