In Egypt, a recent study showed that the average government worker worked only 27 minutes a day!
In some respects, I am jealous : ) Much of the problem stems from Islam’ requirement of prayers 5 times a day. Assuming each prayer session takes 10 minutes each, and it happens twice during the work day, that is 20 minutes at least (the article below suggest that it actually may be hours a day).
But think about it, during a workday, that is at least 20 minutes a day wasted and add breaks, downtime…. I know at my place of work, those 20 minutes are needed everyday to get things done.
Praying five times a day is one of the five pillars of Islam, along with the well-known requirements of making a pilgrimage to Mecca and of giving alms to the poor.
Two of each day’s five sessions — the dhuhr (noon) prayer and asr (afternoon) prayer — fall within working hours, bringing work to a standstill at least twice a day in many places.
A prayer generally takes an average of 10 minutes, but it can be extended if a worshipper chooses to recite one of the longer verses of the Koran.
And before the prayers themselves, there is also a mandatory ablution during which worshippers must wash their faces, hands and arms, feet and heads. In large office buildings, the trips to the bathroom can also eat away at valuable work time.
Qaradawi’s plea to reconcile faith and productivity may hit some hurdles as it risks upsetting the deeply entrenched custom of “prayer breaks” at work.
Society’s increased Islamisation over the past 30 years has already silenced some critics of long prayer sessions.
According to an official study, Egypt’s six million government employees are estimated to spend an average of only 27 minutes per day actually working, reflecting a real problem with productivity.
Qaradawi’s fatwa is aimed at removing prayer as a pretext for not producing. Link
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