For Muslims, being able to attend congregational Friday prayers stress-free would be a great boon and help counter stereotypes and prejudice
t was a Friday, the last day of a five-day workshop for young mid-career professionals from refugee backgrounds with skills in engineering, medicine, economics and other areas. Around midday, many of the Muslim participants began to appear anxious.
The scenes were the same at the southern and northern suburbs I lived where I witnessed young and middle-aged tradies juggling the two choices frantically. He steadfastly heads to work at dawn five days a week and skips lunch breaks, like so many others I know, on Fridays to offer his prayers in congregations with his community at a mosque. He is holding on to this stressful work-life arrangement because there weren’t many options except to do what many of his well-qualified peers adopted as a career – cab driving.
The Friday prayers are a source of healing for so many of the Australian Muslims coming from conflict-ridden countries like Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Somalia and many other places. Many are still grappling with trauma they endured before finding a haven in this country. For them, the free choice of congregational prayers without stress would be hugely beneficial.
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