KhojeDigar
Thousands offer Khoje Digar at Khwaja Bazar shrine, J&K
Srinagar/IBNS: Thousands of devotees Sunday offered Khoje Digar special mass prayers of Asr to mark the Urs of Khwaja Naqshband Sahib (RA) at his shrine at Khwaja Bazar area of Downtown here.
The devotees offered prayers on the road stretch from Nowhatta to Khanyar.
The shrine management committee had laid the prayer mats on the road to avoid inconvenience to the people.
Khoje Digar is offered on third of Rabi-ul-Awal every year to mark the commemoration of the annual Urs of the saint of Naqashbandi Sahib (RA).
Soon after the prayers, Imam and Khateeb of the shrine Mir Syed Muhammad Toib Kamli recited the Awraad-e-Asriya, a booklet comprising verses of repentance and faith.
The Sufi saint used to recite along with hundreds' of his disciples 700 years ago at Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
Kamli threw light on the life of Naqashband Sahib (RA).
In his sermon, Kamli said that the Uswa-e-Hasana (the way of living) of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) has been and will continue to be the best path to follow and walk upon not only for Muslims and the entire mankind.
He said great Sufi saints like Naqashband Sahib (RA) were the blessed and chosen ones by Almighty Allah to spread the teachings of the revered Prophet Muhammad (SAW) among people who dedicated their life to it.
Nazir Ahmad Gujri, a supervisor of the shrine, claimed that covid19 safety guidelines were followed in letter and spirit.
"We had made hand sanitizers available for devotees, social distancing was maintained and the premise was also being regularly sanitized," he said.
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