{"id":25721,"date":"2020-05-19T13:16:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T07:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/darul-uloom-deoband-issues-fatwa-asks-muslims-to-offer-eid-prayers-at-home\/"},"modified":"2020-05-19T13:16:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T07:46:02","slug":"darul-uloom-deoband-issues-fatwa-asks-muslims-to-offer-eid-prayers-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=25721","title":{"rendered":"Darul Uloom Deoband issues fatwa, asks Muslims to offer Eid prayers at home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>The directive comes amid a nationwide lockdown to slow down the spread of coronavirus.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/darul-uloom-deoband-issues-fatwa-asks-muslims-to-offer-eid-prayers-at-home\/article31620729.ece\">PTI<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has issued a fatwa asking Muslims to offer their Eid prayers this time at home, instead of congregating at mosques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The directive comes amid a nationwide lockdown to slow down the spread of coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the relaxations announced in the lockdown, religious and other large gatherings are still banned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fatwa was issued in response to a query put to the seminary, its spokesman Ashraf Usmani told PTI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fatwa said the Eid namaz can be offered in the same manner that the Friday prayers are now being read at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It said, not holding the namaz in the usual manner is pardonable in circumstances such as these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eid falls on May 24 or 25 this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The directive comes amid a nationwide lockdown to slow down the spread of coronavirus. PTI Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has issued a fatwa asking Muslims to offer their Eid prayers this time at home, instead of congregating at mosques. The directive comes amid a nationwide lockdown to slow down the spread of coronavirus. Despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25721","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=25721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}