{"id":170913,"date":"2019-08-11T07:33:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T04:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=170913"},"modified":"2019-08-11T16:50:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T13:50:56","slug":"president-al-assad-performs-al-adha-holiday-prayer-at-al-afram-mosque-in-damascus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=170913","title":{"rendered":"President al-Assad performs Eid al-Adha holiday prayer at al-Afram Mosque in Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA- President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday morning performed Eid al-Adha holiday Prayer at al-Afram Mosque in Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>President al-Assad was accompanied in the prayer by the Minister of Religious Endowments (Awqaf), Grand Mufti of the Republic, a number of senior officials, People\u2019s Assembly members, religious scholars, and a number of citizens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1-36.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-170938 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1-36-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1-36-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1-36-768x436.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1-36-1024x582.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The prayer was led by Sheikh Hassan Awad \u00a0who delivered the holiday sermon, in which he talked about the sublime meanings of Eid al-Adha \u00a0which teach people \u00a0how to be patient in difficult times and which consolidate the values of sacrifice for defending the dignity and safety of the homeland.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2-16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-170921 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2-16-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2-16-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2-16-768x588.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2-16-1024x784.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2-16.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Awad indicated that the Eid makes us remember the day on which Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) stood at Arafat to teach humanity the lofty ethics and the rules of justice, love, amity and cooperation among the people, while today there are some of those who are distorting the right religion through their extremism, criminality and terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>He affirmed that those who do that don&#8217;t belong to the gracious sharia of Prophet Mohammad who taught the nation the language of dialogue and thinking and how to work for realizing peace, security and stability not the killing and the destruction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-170939 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3-13-300x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3-13-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3-13-768x289.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3-13-1024x386.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have led the homeland in the most difficult circumstances and you have been steadfast and we have been steadfast through you, and God made you triumph and he made the homeland triumph over terrorism through the sacrifices of our heroic army which has been engaged in the fiercest battels against terrorism and its backers,&#8221; Sheikh Awad said addressing President al-Assad.<\/p>\n<p>Awad concluded the sermon through praying for God to protect and grant success to President al-Assad, and to aid our brave army , have mercy on its martyrs and heal its wounded personnel and to restore peace and security to Syria.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-170913 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3-12.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3-12-300x188.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3-12-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3-12-768x482.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3-12-1024x642.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/3-12.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/4-10.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/4-10-300x178.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/4-10-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/4-10-768x456.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/4-10-1024x608.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/4-10.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Ruaa al-Jazaeri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA- President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday morning performed Eid al-Adha holiday Prayer at al-Afram Mosque in Damascus. President al-Assad was accompanied in the prayer by the Minister of Religious Endowments (Awqaf), Grand Mufti of the Republic, a number of senior officials, People\u2019s Assembly members, religious scholars, and a number of citizens. The prayer was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":170925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-local","category-slide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}