Condemning the Israeli plan to annex West Bank, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid of Zahedan, Iran urged on the necessity of protection of the Palestinian land and its recognition as an “independent Palestinian state.”<\/p>\n
Referring to the occasion of the “Quds Day”, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid said in his Friday speech of May 22, 2020 in the presence of thousands of worshipers: “We all express our support to the oppressed people of Palestine”.<\/p>\n
The president of Darululoom Zahedan called the plan of annexation the West Bank to Israel, as an “unjust deal” and said: “The plan to annex the Jordan Valley to Israel, which is one of the United States’ plans, is a great injustice and oppression”.<\/p>\n
“The implementation of this plan and declaring Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is unacceptable to all Muslims around the world”, the Iranian Sunnis leader said.<\/p>\n
“Not a single inch of Palestinian land should be occupied by Israel”, Friday Imam of Sunnis in Zahedan added.<\/p>\n
Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hamid said: “All Islamic countries and free nations must recognize Palestine as an independent and free country and accept ambassadors from this state.”<\/p>\n
“The rights of the Palestinian people, which had been violated for seventy years, must be guaranteed”, he said.<\/p>\n
Eid prayer will be offered at Zahedan’s Grand Musalla with health protocols<\/strong><\/p>\n In the last part of his Friday speech, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid said: “Eid al-Fitr prayers will be offered at Zahedan’s Grand Musalla.”<\/p>\n He continued: “Due to the outbreak of COVID 19, it is better to establish Eid prayers outside the city, because the place is open and wide, too.”<\/p>\n Shaikh Abdol-Hamid suggested the worshipers of upcoming Eid al-Fitr: “People should offer prayers and return home with observing the distance without making any crowd”.<\/p>\n He pointed: “People should follow the health advice, use masks and bring personal prayer rugs during the Eid prayer.”<\/p>\n “Patients and suspected of being ill should not attend Musalla and mosques until they are cured and they should pray at their homes”, he advised more.<\/p>\n The Friday Imam of Sunnis in Zahedan further said: “The international healthcare recommendations and protocols should be followed. Shaking hands and hugging are strictly forbidden at Musalla in order to prevent the spread of COVID 19.”<\/p>\n “Funeral services, mourning and wedding ceremonies should not be held, and if they are held, should be held briefly in the presence of around few persons”, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid suggested.<\/p>\n Khateeb of the Grand Makki Mosque of Zahedan continued: “People’s health is very important for us and it is according to the teachings of Islam.”<\/p>\n In his last points, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid announced that the Eid al-Fitr prayers will be held briefly in Zahedan at 8 o’clock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Condemning the Israeli plan to annex West Bank, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid of Zahedan, Iran urged on the necessity of protection of the Palestinian land and its recognition as an “independent Palestinian state.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-views"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}