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Festive spirit grips tri-cities.
Festive spirit gripped the tri-cities of Warangal-Hanamkonda-Kazipet on Thursday with thousands of Muslims offering special prayers at mosques and Edgahs, celebrating ‘Eid-ul-Fitr’.
Warangal: Festive spirit gripped the tri-cities of Warangal-Hanamkonda-Kazipet on Thursday with thousands of Muslims offering special prayers at mosques and Edgahs, celebrating ‘Eid-ul-Fitr’.
Ulemas in their sermons highlighted the significance and philosophy of Eid-ul-Fitr, celebrated at the end of holy month of Ramzan, the ninth month of the Islamic almanac during which the Muslims observe a stringent dawn-to-dusk fast.
According to the Islamic scholars, it was in the month of Ramzan (also called as Ramadan), Holy Quran was revealed to Prophet Muhammad and hence it holds a great importance in Islamic faith.
Devotees thronged Kazipet Dargah, Subedari Choti Masjid, Iwanshahi Masjid, Lashkar Edgah, Edgah Hussaini, Fort Warangal Edgah, Bokkalagadda Edgah, Mattewada Edgah and others to offer the prayers. The celebrations were also held across the district marking the end of holy month of Ramzan.
Clad in white and displaying religious piety the Muslims offered special congregational prayers, exchanged greetings and gifts along with warm embraces and took part in feasts with friends and families.
Warangal mayor N Narender, Warangal (East) MLA K Surekha, MLC K Muralidhar Rao, additional municipal commissioner Shahid Masood and others have taken part in special prayers at Mattewada Edgah and other places and greeted the Muslims.
GWMC deputy mayor Khaja Sirajuddin hosted a special lunch for corporators and officials on the day. Warangal (West) MLA D Vinay Bhasker, commissioner of police G Sudheer Babu, TRS district minority cell president Md Nayeemuddin took part in the Eid-ul-Fitr prayers at Bokkalagadda.
Addressing the gatherings, mayor Narender and MLA Vinay Bhasker have wished that Eid-ul-fitr would bring new hopes into the lives of Muslims. The TRS government led by Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has been striving for the development of Muslim community by introducing various welfare measures, they added.
District Congress president N Rajender Reddy, DCC Bank chairman J Raghava Reddy, former MLAs R Kantha Rao and K Sridhar, the party leaders EV Srinivas Rao, B Srinivas Rao, M Sridhar and others have visited the residences of several Muslim leaders and extended the greetings.
Meanwhile, the city police have tight security arrangements at the religious places where police in large numbers and metal detectors were deployed. The devotees were frisked before they were allowed into the Masjids and Edgahs.
