{"id":31282,"date":"2024-03-31T19:40:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T14:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=31282"},"modified":"2024-03-31T19:40:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T14:40:10","slug":"ramadan-2024-millions-of-pakistanis-to-observe-itikaaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ramadan-2024-millions-of-pakistanis-to-observe-itikaaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramadan 2024: Millions of Pakistanis to observe Itikaaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Like other parts of the world, millions of Muslims across Pakistan have entered a state of solitude known as &#8220;Itkaaf&#8221; after Asr prayers on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>During the final ten days of Ramadan, people perform Itikaaf, a time to pray in solitude for the blessings of Allah and in accordance with the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him).<\/p>\n<p>From the 21st of Ramadan, men will be confined to mosques while women will isolate themselves in their homes so that they can focus on their prayers.<\/p>\n<p>Motakifs (retreaters) will break the 20th fast of Ramadan while in Itikaaf.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ramadan-2024-festivities-maah-e-isar-o-aman-starts-at-lok-virsa\/\">Ramadan 2024: Festivities \u201cMaah-e-Isar O Aman\u201d starts at Lok Virsa<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mosques across the country have designated special areas for men to stay during the retreat. The pilgrims end their pilgrimage as soon as the Shawwal moon is visible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Like other parts of the world, millions of Muslims across Pakistan have entered a state of solitude known as &#8220;Itkaaf&#8221; after Asr prayers on Sunday. During the final ten days of Ramadan, people perform Itikaaf, a time to pray in solitude for the blessings of Allah and in accordance with the teachings of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":31283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31282","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}