{"id":46158,"date":"2022-07-09T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/muslims-celebrate-eid-al-adha\/"},"modified":"2022-07-12T14:13:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T14:13:20","slug":"muslims-celebrate-eid-al-adha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/muslims-celebrate-eid-al-adha\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslims celebrate Eid Al Adha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who turned up for prayers at the stadium were joined by 24 parliamentarians from different countries who are in Rwanda for Francophonie Parliamentary Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Eid al-Adha, which in Arabic literally means the &#8220;festival of the sacrifice&#8221;, commemorates the Koran tale of Prophet Abraham\u2019s willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael but God offered him a lamb to sacrifice, ruling that no human life should be sacrificed in the name of God.<\/p>\n<p>The day is marked with the sacrifice of an animal; usually a goat, sheep, or cow, and the distribution of the meat among neighbours, family members and the poor.<\/p>\n<p>The Mufti of Rwanda, Sheikh Hitimana Salim has said that Eid Al Adha is a feast of great significance which induces joy.  <\/p>\n<p>He added that the day should be an opportunity to spread love and adhere to commandments and Abraham obeyed God.  <\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Hitimana also requested Muslims to share foods with friends and vulnerable people.   <\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Musa Fazil Harerimana, the Vice Speaker of the Lower Chamber of Parliament also attended the prayers along with counterparts from Francophone countries.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey came to attend Francophonie Parliamentary Assembly taking place in Rwanda an expressed interest in joining us during this prayer. So, we made arrangements for them to participate,\u201d he noted.   <\/p>\n<p>Saley Sahadatou, a parliamentarian from Niger has expressed delight to have celebrated Eid Al Adha along with Rwandans. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43255 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/153a8177-6be26.jpg\" alt=\"Muslims have marked Eid Al Adha with prayers. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43257 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/153a8177-6be26-2.jpg\" alt=\"Sheikh Musa Fazil Harerimana, the Vice Speaker of the Lower Chamber of Parliament also attended the prayers.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43263 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/153a8412-d33d9.jpg\" alt=\"Sheikh Hitimana also requested Muslims to share foods with friends and vulnerable people.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43262 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/153a8389-530d9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43261 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/153a8361-a5a7f.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43260 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/acx.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43259 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/153a8425-c509f.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43258 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/avice.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43257 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/153a8177-6be26-2.jpg\" alt=\"Sheikh Musa Fazil Harerimana, the Vice Speaker of the Lower Chamber of Parliament also attended the prayers.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43264 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/153a8216-9ef2c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Muslims from different parts of Rwanda have celebrated Eid Al Adha where it has been marked by prayers which took place at Kigali Stadium in Nyamirambo at national level.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46158"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46158"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}