MIRPUR (Kashmir English): The people of Jammu and Kashmir inhibiting either side of the Line of Control (LoC) are all set to celebrate Eid-ul-Adha with traditional religious zeal and fervor tomorrow (Saturday, June 7).
The day will dawn offering Namaz-e-fajr along with special prayers in the mosques for the stability, integrity, unity and solidarity of the Muslim ummah, progress and prosperity of Pakistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the liberation of Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir from the Indian subjugation.
In Indian Illegally-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the occupational forces have denied access to Eid prayer congregations at open places besides locking major mosques and other big places of worships to resist Muslims desire to attend Eid congregations to offer the Eid prayer.
As such, People of the Muslim majority occupied Kashmir, besieged in the bleeding valley were being deprived of celebrating the day because of the total siege of the internationally-acknowledged disputed territory by over a million of the Indian occupying armed forces in follow up of the August 5, 2019 unilateral sinister Indian unlawful action of revocation of special status of the Internationally acknowledged disputed Himalayan Jammu Kashmir state.
Valiant Kashmiri Muslims in the Indian occupied state, are, however, reportedly determined to celebrate Eid-ul-Adha with full religious zeal and fervor despite the exceptional restrictions imposed by the occupational Indian forces, with renewal of the pledge to continue the liberation struggle, a report reaching from across the Line of Control here Friday said.
Eid congregations
The biggest Eid prayer congregation is reportedly scheduled by the Kashmiri Muslims to be held in all circumstances at the compound of the reportedly still-locked Dargah Hazrat Bal holding Central Jamia mosque in Srinagar, the report revealed.
Other big Eid congregations will also be held, despite all restrictions imposed by the Indian occupational forces, at Eidgahs and Jamia mosques in Baramulla, Kupwara, Islamabad, Pulwama, Jammu, Poonch, Rajouri, Udhampur, Kargil and Leh, the report added.
In Azad Jammu and Kashmir, special Eid prayer congregations will be held at all small and major cities and towns of all 10 districts of the liberated territory including the state’s metropolis Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Kotli, Bhimber, Haveli, Hattiyan, Bagh, Sudhanoti, Rawalakot and Neelam valley districts where the people will offer Eid prayer at the mosques, eidgahs and open places. Later on the ‘farzandan-e-Touheed’ will sacrifice animals following the Sunnah of the Hazrat Ibrahiem (AS).
