{"id":24172,"date":"2020-04-21T15:17:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T09:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/taraweeh-itikaf-iftar-suspended-in-makkah-madinah-in-ramadan\/"},"modified":"2020-04-21T15:17:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T09:47:47","slug":"taraweeh-itikaf-iftar-suspended-in-makkah-madinah-in-ramadan-ksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=24172","title":{"rendered":"Taraweeh, Itikaf, Iftar suspended in Makkah, Madinah in Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Taraweeh prayers suspended in Mecca and Medina in efforts to contain coronavirus<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/latest-on-coronavirus-outbreak\/saudi-arabia-suspends-ramadan-prayers-at-holy-mosques\/1812431\">Agencies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saudi Arabia has suspended Tarawih prayers at the two holy mosques in Mecca and Medina in a bid to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tarawih, special night prayers performed during the holy month, will be held without public attendance at the Grand Mosque [Masjid al-Haram] and the Prophet\u2019s Mosque [Masjid al-Nabawi], said Abdul Rahman As-Sudais, president of the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tarawih will be performed mainly with staff, As-Sudais said in a statement on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement also said that itikaf &#8212; the Islamic practice of secluding oneself in the mosque to pray &#8212; has been canceled at both mosques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also said that Umrah will remain suspended until further notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The novel coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, has spread to 185 countries and regions since emerging in Wuhan, China last December, with the U.S. and Europe now the hardest-hit areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are more than 2.4 million cases worldwide and over 170,000 deaths. More than 647,000 have recovered from the virus, according to data compiled by U.S.-based Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taraweeh prayers suspended in Mecca and Medina in efforts to contain coronavirus Agencies Saudi Arabia has suspended Tarawih prayers at the two holy mosques in Mecca and Medina in a bid to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. Tarawih, special night prayers performed during the holy month, will be held without public attendance at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24172","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\/24172","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=24172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24172\/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=24172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}