{"id":49851,"date":"2021-07-09T18:43:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T17:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=49851"},"modified":"2021-07-09T18:43:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T17:43:29","slug":"dhu-al-hijjah-crescent-not-sighted-eid-al-adha-begins-on-july-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/dhu-al-hijjah-crescent-not-sighted-eid-al-adha-begins-on-july-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhu Al-Hijjah crescent not sighted, Eid Al-Adha begins on July 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4777\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/How-long-is-the-world-fasting-this-Ramadan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"839\" height=\"470\" \/>Eid Al-Adha will be celebrated on Tuesday July 20 after the crescent of Dhu Al-Hijjah was not sighted on Friday evening. Dhu Al-Hijjah is the month during which the Hajj pilgrimage takes place and is the last month of the Islamic calendar. Hajj will start on Dhu Al-Hijjah 8 (July 18) and end on Dhu Al-Hijjah 12 (July 22). The day of Arafat will fall on July 19. Muslims who are not performing Hajj this year will celebrate Eid Al-Adha instead. Only around 60,000 people from the Kingdom will be performing Hajj this year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/dhu-al-hijjah-crescent-not-sighted-eid-al-adha-begins-on-july-20\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eid Al-Adha will be celebrated on Tuesday July 20 after the crescent of Dhu Al-Hijjah was not sighted on Friday evening. Dhu Al-Hijjah is the month during which the Hajj pilgrimage takes place and is the last month of the Islamic calendar. Hajj will start on Dhu Al-Hijjah 8 (July 18) and end on Dhu &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49852,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49851\/revisions\/49852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}