{"id":8,"date":"2012-01-13T15:02:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T11:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/2012\/01\/13\/sunnis-ask-khamenei-to-allow-establishing-eid-prayers-in-megalopolises\/"},"modified":"2012-01-13T15:02:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T11:32:15","slug":"sunnis-ask-khamenei-to-allow-establishing-eid-prayers-in-megalopolises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/2012\/01\/8\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunnis ask Khamenei to allow establishing Eid prayers in megalopolises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/molana_khatm1432.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>ZAHEDAN: Khateeb of Ahl-us-Sunna, Shaikh Abdul Hameed has asked the  Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khamenehi to dispel barriers from  establishing Eid and Friday prayers of Sunnis in mega cities of Iran.      <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Talking to tens of thousand worshipers in grand Makki mosque of  Zahedan at the 29th night of Ramadan, he urged that there are some  reports that the Police of Tehran are taking written pledges from Sunni  Imams to not offer Eid al-Fitr prayers in Tehran metropolis. However,  According to the Qur\u2019an, rather establishing prayers is duty of any  Islamic regime.<\/p>\n<p>Khateeb of Sunnis in Zahedan said, \u2018I would like  to request the Supreme Leader to stop discriminative and illegal steps  of some officials, as they have been forbidding Sunni minorities in mega  cities of Iran to offer prayers in congregation specially Eidain and  Friday prayers. This is the demand of all Sunnis in Iran.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Delivering  sermon on the occasion of the completion of the Qur\u2019an in Taraweeh  prayers in grand Makki mosque, Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdul Hameed  further said that Shiites and Sunnis are two Muslim sects, they live  with fraternity and Islamic brotherhood but they have different mosques  and Mosallas, because they have differences in juridical affairs. It is  impossible to compel them to gather in one mosque and force a particular  sect to follow the other one. It is contrary to the Iranian  constitution which gives permission to the followers of all sects to  worship according to their laws and jurisprudence. <\/p>\n<p>The eminent  Sunni leader added more, \u2018Wherever Shiites are in minority and Sunnis  form majority, Shias have their own different worship places and they  never offer prayers behind any Sunni imam, neither Sunni scholars want  them to do so. Forcing any sect to follow the other one only creates  disputes and opacity. Some elements force Sunni Muslims of Tehran and  other metropolises to offer Eid and Jum\u2019ah prayers following Shiite  Imams; it is really regrettable and incurs disappointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZAHEDAN: Khateeb of Ahl-us-Sunna, Shaikh Abdul Hameed has asked the Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khamenehi to dispel barriers from establishing Eid and Friday prayers of Sunnis in mega cities of Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-views"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}