{"id":20852,"date":"2020-03-15T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T09:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=20852"},"modified":"2020-03-15T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T09:52:00","slug":"coronavirus-scare-time-for-mass-repentance-prayers-no-need-to-avoid-friday-prayers-at-masjids-shrines-grand-mufti-nasir-ul-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=20852","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Scare: Time for mass repentance prayers, no need to avoid Friday prayers at masjids, shrines: Grand Mufti Nasir-ul-Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018No reason to call for praying at home when Kashmir is virus free so far, Will take a call if situation worsens God forbid\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

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Srinagar, March 15:<\/em><\/strong> Kashmir\u2019s Grand Mufti, Nasir-ul-Islam on Sunday said the Islamic law\u2014shariah doesn\u2019t permit avoiding religious congregations including Friday prayers when the pendemic like Coronavirus has not even spread in Kashmir. He said time is ripe for organizing congregational repentance prayers in masjids across Kashmir and the Imams are advised upon to lead such prayers to seek Allah\u2019s refuge from the Covid-19.<\/em><\/p>\n

According to wire service\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the Grand Mufti said that, however, was quick to add that in case god-forbid, anybody tests positive in Kashmir, which is not the case so far, the Ulema will sit and unanimously decide about the \u201cstrategy to be adopted.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see any reason to call for banning congregational prayers at masjids and shrines as the virus has not spread in Kashmir yet. As per the official figures, not a single case has tested positive and we should be thankful to Almighty Allah for that,\u201d Mufti Nasir said. He urged Imams and Molvis of all the shrines and masjids across Kashmir to organize prayers for repentance across Kashmir to seek Allah\u2019s refuge from the deadly virus.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Grand Mufti, as per KNO, said that every day, there should be \u201cmass repentance prayers in every masjid across the Valley.\u201d \u201cThere is no need to avoid congregational prayers of Fridays or other prayers of the day. People should not make Covid-19 an excuse to offer prayers at home. Islam doesn\u2019t allow lame excuses and there should be solid reason to pray at home, which I don\u2019t see anywhere,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

As per official figures, only two cases have tested positive in Jammu region of J&K while as no case has been tested positive in Kashmir so far even though hundreds of people have been screened and over 1000 samples taken for testing so far\u2014(KNO)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018No reason to call for praying at home when Kashmir is virus free so far, Will take a call if situation worsens God forbid\u2019 Srinagar, March 15: Kashmir\u2019s Grand Mufti, Nasir-ul-Islam on Sunday said the Islamic law\u2014shariah doesn\u2019t permit avoiding religious congregations including Friday prayers when the pendemic like Coronavirus has not even spread in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}