{"id":104689,"date":"2026-03-20T10:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=104689"},"modified":"2026-03-20T10:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:38:31","slug":"eid-ul-fitr-festivities-begin-across-gulf-states-saudi-arabia-leads-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/eid-ul-fitr-festivities-begin-across-gulf-states-saudi-arabia-leads-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Eid-ul-Fitr Festivities Begin Across Gulf States, Saudi Arabia Leads Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH: Eid ul-Fitr is being celebrated in Gulf countries including <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/us-embassy-urges-americans-to-leave-saudi-arabia-amid-rising-threats\/\">Saudi Arabia<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>The largest congregations of Eid al-Fitr prayers was held in the Masjid ul Haram and the Prophet&#8217;s Mosque, millions of followers of Tawheed will perform Eid prayers.<\/p>\n<p>Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz congratulated Muslims around the world on Eid al-Fitr.<\/p>\n<p>King Salman reiterated his commitment to continue efforts for global peace and stability, and prayed for peace, security and stability for the Muslim Ummah.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Eid is also being celebrated in Turkey, Lebanon, Yemen, Palestine and Iraq today.<\/p>\n<p>A large number of Muslim communities across Europe, including the UK, have announced to celebrate Eid today.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest and most colorful Chand Raat took place in London. People were seen bustling at the Chand Raat, organized in collaboration with Geo TV and Jang.<\/p>\n<p>Long queues of women were formed at the henna stalls to get beautiful henna designs done on their hands.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a rush at the stalls selling beautiful clothes, bangles, jewellery, perfumes, make-up, toys and handicrafts. Delicious food was also arranged for those who came to celebrate Chand Raat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH: Eid ul-Fitr is being celebrated in Gulf countries including Saudi Arabia today. The largest congregations of Eid al-Fitr prayers was held in the Masjid ul Haram and the Prophet&#8217;s Mosque, millions of followers of Tawheed will perform Eid prayers. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz congratulated Muslims around the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":103753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,3],"tags":[4328],"class_list":["post-104689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-eid-ul-fitr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104690,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104689\/revisions\/104690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}