{"id":239181,"date":"2020-07-23T08:19:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T07:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=239181"},"modified":"2020-07-23T08:20:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T07:20:02","slug":"sultan-issues-strong-warning-to-muslims-ahead-of-eid-el-kabir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=239181","title":{"rendered":"Sultan issues strong warning to Muslims ahead of Eid el-Kabir"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa\u2019ad Abubakar, has warned district heads and Imams to conduct Eid prayers in Juma\u2019at mosques instead of prayer grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The spiritual head of Muslims in the country, gave the advice while declaring July 31 as the date for Eid-el-Kabir celebration.<\/p>\n<p>n a statement, Abubakar called on Muslim faithful to pray for peace, progress and development in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis Eminence, Alhaji Muhammad Sa\u2019ad Abubakar CFR, mni, the Sultan of Sokoto and President General Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has declared Friday, 31th July, 2020 as the 10th day of Zulhijja 1441 AH and the day of Eid \u2013 El \u2013 Kabir for the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurthermore, in view of the current situation caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Sultan hereby advises all the District Heads and Imams in Sokoto State, to observe Eid prayers at their Jumu\u2019at Mosques in their respective towns and villages and not at Eid Grounds,\u201d the statement read in part.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa\u2019ad Abubakar, has warned district heads and Imams to conduct Eid prayers in Juma\u2019at mosques instead of prayer grounds. The spiritual head of Muslims in the country, gave the advice while declaring July 31 as the date for Eid-el-Kabir celebration. n a statement, Abubakar called on Muslim faithful to pray for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,2677],"tags":[12297,200,3655],"class_list":["post-239181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-religious","tag-eid-el-filr","tag-sokoto","tag-sultan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/239182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}