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Thousands throng Hazratbal shrine for Friday
prayers
Friday February 10, 2012 08:08:20 PM,
IANS
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Srinagar: More than
70,000 people offered congregational prayers at the Hazratbal
Shrine here on the last Friday of the 10-day long Milad-e-Nabi
festivities.
Files of devotees who gathered for the Friday prayers spilled over
from inside the main mosque to the huge lawns of the shrine and
thence to the roads and other available space outside as people
from all over the Kashmir Valley assembled at Hazratbal.
The 10-day festivities in connection with the birthday of the
Prophet of Islam concluded after the Holy Relic (a hair from the
Prophet's beard) was displayed to wailing and weeping devotees who
prayed for penance and offered 'Durud' (Praise for the Prophet)
before and after Friday prayers.
Men and women from across the valley poured into the shrine in
state-owned buses and private vehicles including cars, mini buses
and two-wheelers.
Police and other government agencies had made elaborate
arrangements related to security, drinking water, traffic and
crowd control as well as medical facilities.
Everyone had to pass through a metal detector gate. Security
personnel in plainclothes frisked the devotees.
The holiest Muslim shrine in Kashmir, the Hazratbal, is located on
the banks of the Dal Lake in Srinagar.
The building of the shrine has been constructed as a replica of
the Prophet's shrine in Madinah (Saudi Arabia). But the dome at
the Hazratbal is white in colour while that in Madinah is green.
Dozens of sweetmeat shops, vegetable stalls, and fruit and mutton
shops were tastefully decorated to attract the devotees who
usually do a bit of shopping after the prayers.
The Imam of the shrine displayed the Holy Relic after the prayers
from a special balcony as the air was rent with 'Durud' and
prayers lending a divine ambiance.
Devotees took hours to leave the shrine after the prayers.
Police had a tough time regulating the movements of thousands of
devotees who jostled with each other to push through the jam after
the Friday prayers.
A relatively warmer winter sun greeted the devotees at the day's
Friday prayers in the valley.
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