{"id":23923,"date":"2020-04-17T18:16:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T12:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/covid-19-ramadan-eid-prayers-in-saudi-to-be-held-at-home\/"},"modified":"2020-04-17T18:16:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T12:46:53","slug":"covid-19-ramadan-eid-prayers-in-saudi-to-be-held-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=23923","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 | Ramadan, Eid prayers in Saudi to be held at home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/04\/coronavirus-deaths-35000-live-updates-200416234342434.html\">AP<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the highest religious authority in the country, said that Muslim prayers during Ramadan and for the subsequent Eid al-Fitr feast should be performed at home if the coronavirus outbreak continues, Saudi&#8217;s Okaz newspaper reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Ramadan&#8217;s Taraweeh (evening) prayer can be performed at home if it cannot be performed at mosques due to the preventive measures taken to fight the spread of coronavirus,&#8221; he said in response to a question, adding that same applies for Eid prayers, according to the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the highest religious authority in the country, said that Muslim prayers during Ramadan and for the subsequent Eid al-Fitr feast should be performed at home if the coronavirus outbreak continues, Saudi&#8217;s Okaz newspaper reported. &#8220;Ramadan&#8217;s Taraweeh (evening) prayer can be performed at home if it cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23923","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=23923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23923\/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=23923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}