More than 1,200 people are expected to perform Aitakaf from Sunday night at the Faisal Mosque and the Faisal Masjid Islamic Centre Da'wah Academy has finalized nine-day Aitakaf Programme for 21-29 of Ramadan.
Prominent scholars will deliver three lectures on daily, an official of the academy told this agency Saturday.
The Dawah Academy has instructed the participants of Aitakaf that an orientation programme is necessary for all and the desirous persons should cooperate with the administration.
The holy month has entered the last ten days, which are more important for Muslims across the globe. All the Jamia mosques across the country have been decorated for the Aitakaf.
People are preparing to start observing Aitakaf from Sunday evening in the Jamia mosques across the country.
Aitakaf, an intensive worship observed during the last 10 days of Ramadan, involves confinement to a small place inside a mosque or in the house (for women). It is a Sunnah of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) and carries a multitude of blessings of the Almighty.
Men observe Aitakaf in small cubicles, set up by hanging large cloth sheets inside mosques, whereas women observe it at any corner or quite place in the house which is not frequented by others.
Mosques in the provincial capitals have been tastefully decorated and places have been allocated to the worshippers on the first-come-first-served basis because of an ever-increasing number of those willing to observe Aitakaf.
Normally, mosques invite requests from worshippers and managing committees allocate places to them for which special arrangements are made inside the mosques.
These worshippers are provided Sehri and Iftari by their relatives to facilitate them to concentrate on their worship.
But as a part of worship and regular practice during Ramadan, many philanthropists and common citizens send food items for Sehri and Iftari for worshipers in the mosques.
'Aitakaf' observers are not allowed to leave the premises of the mosque and meet any outsider unless they have a genuine reason or an emergency. They have to stay inside mosques round the clock to build up a spiritual connection with Allah through their 'ibadah', while their families and friends arrange 'Sehr' and 'iftar' for them.
Their observance ends as soon as the Shawal moon is sighted, commonly known as 'Chand Raat' and all the relatives and friends come to mosques with garlands and flowers to congratulate these faithful people.
Prominent scholars will deliver three lectures on daily, an official of the academy told this agency Saturday.
The Dawah Academy has instructed the participants of Aitakaf that an orientation programme is necessary for all and the desirous persons should cooperate with the administration.
The holy month has entered the last ten days, which are more important for Muslims across the globe. All the Jamia mosques across the country have been decorated for the Aitakaf.
People are preparing to start observing Aitakaf from Sunday evening in the Jamia mosques across the country.
Aitakaf, an intensive worship observed during the last 10 days of Ramadan, involves confinement to a small place inside a mosque or in the house (for women). It is a Sunnah of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) and carries a multitude of blessings of the Almighty.
Men observe Aitakaf in small cubicles, set up by hanging large cloth sheets inside mosques, whereas women observe it at any corner or quite place in the house which is not frequented by others.
Mosques in the provincial capitals have been tastefully decorated and places have been allocated to the worshippers on the first-come-first-served basis because of an ever-increasing number of those willing to observe Aitakaf.
Normally, mosques invite requests from worshippers and managing committees allocate places to them for which special arrangements are made inside the mosques.
These worshippers are provided Sehri and Iftari by their relatives to facilitate them to concentrate on their worship.
But as a part of worship and regular practice during Ramadan, many philanthropists and common citizens send food items for Sehri and Iftari for worshipers in the mosques.
'Aitakaf' observers are not allowed to leave the premises of the mosque and meet any outsider unless they have a genuine reason or an emergency. They have to stay inside mosques round the clock to build up a spiritual connection with Allah through their 'ibadah', while their families and friends arrange 'Sehr' and 'iftar' for them.
Their observance ends as soon as the Shawal moon is sighted, commonly known as 'Chand Raat' and all the relatives and friends come to mosques with garlands and flowers to congratulate these faithful people.
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