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BSS-43
SHAB-E-BARAT-OBSERVANCE
Holy Shab-e-Barat being observed
DHAKA, April 9, 2020 (BSS) – The holy Shab-e-Barat, known as the
night of fortune, is being observed across the country tonight with
due religious fervour and zeal.
This time, Muslims are spending the night staying at homes,
offering prayers, reciting from the holy Quran and seeking blessings
to Allah for long life, peace, progress and happiness for themselves,
their families, relatives and friends as well as the nation and the
Muslim Ummah.
In a statement on Wednesday, Islamic Foundation (IF) urged the
country’s people, including ulema-mashayekhs, to offer special prayers
staying at homes on the night of Shab-e-Barat and not to visit
graveyards and shrines to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
“We are humbly requesting the countrymen, including ulema,
peer-mashayekhs, and imams, and muajjins of the mosques across the
country for offering special prayers to keep our motherland, the
Muslim Ummah as well as the whole world safe from the COVID-19,” said
the IF statement.
In separate messages, President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina have urged the Muslim devotees to offer prayers and
munajat staying at respective homes on the holy night.
They greeted all Muslims in Bangladesh and elsewhere across the
world on the occasion of the holy Shab-e-Barat, the night of fortune.
Muslims consider Shab-e-Barat as one of the three most sacred
nights and believe that on this night Almighty Allah decides the fate
of all human beings fixing their ‘rizq’ (livelihood) for the next
year.
Many families prepared traditional foods like handmade rice-bread
with beef and halua (a kind of desert made usually from semolina,
carrot, chickpea or papaya) both at rural and urban areas across the
country on the occasion.
A good number of Muslims observe fasting on the following day.
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