ISLAMABAD/CAIRO – The Supreme Ulema Council of Egypt's Al-Azhar University has given a proper declaration, forbidding assemblage and Friday petitions in mosques to forestall the spread of the coronavirus in the South Asian nation.
Taking into account the worldwide episode of the COVID-19 pandemic, President Dr. Arif Alvi had mentioned the Al-Azhar University to manage the Ummah on how to take prudent steps while performing strict commitments like supplications at mosques.
The announcement (fatwa) further expresses that all confirmations obviously demonstrate that open social affairs, including congregational supplications, can spread the coronavirus. Henceforth, government authorities in Muslim nations have the power to drop congregational and Friday supplications.
Saudi Arabia has prohibited assemblies for five every day petitions, just as Friday supplications everywhere throughout the nation with the exception of inside the Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Prophet's Mosque in Madinah.
Turkey's top strict authority has likewise suspended every single congregational supplication in mosques, including customary Friday petitions, yet said mosques will stay open for the individuals who need to implore separately.
Mosques in Kuwait, where supplication assemblies are restricted, ventured to such an extreme as to change the Azaan or the call to petition marginally — rather than the standard call that incorporates Hayya Ala Al salah (come to supplication), muezzins in the nation are declaring Al Salatu Fi Buyutikum (implore in your homes) from mosques five times each day.
The changed call to petition is established in the Sahih Bukhari, which has a portrayal from Abdullah canister Al-Harith on the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) considering precisely the same changes to the Azaan on blustery or sloppy days.
Iran and different focuses of Muslim confidence have additionally suspended exercises at sanctums and heavenly mosques so as to check the spread of coronavirus.
Be that as it may, experts in Pakistan are yet to think of an unmistakable heading on the issue, even as they push for social removing in the midst of uncommon measures to control the spread which undermines the nation's human services framework and economy.
The Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) will start discussions with ulema from Thursday to choose whether petitions can be offered at home rather than gatherings in mosques as Pakistan goes into lockdown to check the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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