Srinagar, April 20: Kashmir’s Grand Mufti, Nisar-ul-Islam, on Thursday announced that he did not receive any reports related to the sighting of the moon in Shawwal 1443 AH today, and hence, April 21st will be observed as the last day of Ramadan.
Speaking to Rising Kashmir, the Grand Mufti said that Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated across the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir on April 22.
“The Muslims will have to fast one more day as the Shawwal moon has not been sighted this evening. “Eid ul-Fitr will be celebrated in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday,” he said.
The grand mufti has appealed to Muslims to celebrate Eid with great simplicity, adding that “we should not forget the true essence of Eid as we have transmuted it into a festival of fashion and enjoyment.”
He said the decision to announce Eid-ul-Fitr on Saturday was taken after consensus with the Ulema from Kashmir and Jammu regions, respectively, that include the head of Mutahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU), Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the patron of Darul Uloom Rahimiya Bandipora, Moulana Rehmatullah Qasimi, also from Darul Uloom Bandipora. Mufti Nazir Ahmed Qasmi, Mufti Muzaffar, and Mufti Abdur Raheem via Baramulla. Khateeb at the shrine of Hazrat Naqshband Sahab (RA), Prof. Muhammad Tayib Kamili, Chairman Karwani-e-Islami Ghulam Rasool Hami, from Sautul Awliya Fayaz Ahmed Rizvi, Shia Scholars Aga Syed Al Hassan Mosvi, Aga Syed Haadi, and Masoor Abbas Ansari, Muhammad Yaseen Kirmani, Gen Sec Muslim Personal Law Board, Mufti Himayon, Shabir Ahmed Geelani, Abdur Hameed Nayeemi, Moulana Younus, and Abdur Rehman Ashrafi, Mufti and ayee From Jammu, Ulema who were part of the consensus include Mufti Nazir Ahmed, Mufti Shabir Ahmed Noori, Qari Ali Hussain, Haji Muhammad Shafi Nasri, Mufti Liyqat Ali Rajouri, Master Ashraf from Kathua, Moulana Muzaffar Hussian Rizvi from Jammu, Moulana Shafi Rizvi from Samba, Mufti Muhammad Iqbal from Poonch, Hafiz Syed Yasir from Udhampur, and Bashir Ahmed Qadri and Reasi from Jammu.
