A limited number of Endowments Department employees performed the second Friday prayer in Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem because of the measures imposed to counter the spread of the Corona virus.
And Friday preacher at Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Muhammad Salim, said, "God's wisdom and will wanted him to spend a week of the month of Ramadan, and the mosques in which Friday and congregational prayers were disrupted due to this epidemic that afflicted us."
He added, "How painful it is for Muslims to pray Friday and groups in their homes, and to be prevented from praying Tarawih in their mosques, especially the Al-Aqsa Mosque."
In rare scenes, perhaps the third of the Two Holy Mosques has not seen in its history, a few people of the clergy sat with masks, and they kept distances between them in compliance with the restrictions imposed by the Corona epidemic.
Al-Khatib continued: “But we are satisfied with the judgment of God, submit to his ability, and follow his law to preserve the soul in order to preserve the religion.
In the past years, thousands of worshipers gathered in the Al-Aqsa Mosque to perform the Friday prayer, and the number increased during the month of Ramadan, whether in the Friday prayer or Tarawih.
The Council of Endowments, Islamic Affairs and Holy Sites in Jerusalem renewed yesterday the procedures for suspending the arrival of worshipers to the Al-Aqsa Mosque taken from last March.
He said in a statement that it was decided to continue the suspension "because the serious causes that led to these painful decisions of all of us, which still exist, threaten the lives of people and lead to an increase in the epidemic, are not removed."
- Thousands of worshipers were gathering at Al-Aqsa to perform the Friday prayer.