Bahrain Mirror: Sheikh Ali Al-Sadadi expressed that Friday is a holiday observed by Muslims in all countries and not a working day, on which people gather to worship God and perform the obligatory practice of congregational prayer. "If it is made to be a work day, how can it be a day of gathering as well?" he noted.

Commenting on the demands to turn Friday into a work day, Sheikh Al-Sadadi said, "Christians did not dismiss their holiday, despite their secularism, and Jews also insisted on maintaining their holiday," wondering why Muslims would dismiss theirs.

"You do not have to make other people's holidays your own, but to cancel the Islamic holiday, this cannot be done, and it is contrary to what God's religion wanted, for Friday to be, which is a holiday and not a work day," he added.

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