Eid-ul-Fitar is celebrated in Kerala today while whole India would celebrate it on Monday. The festival is also being celebrated today in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and other gulf countries.
Thousands of Muslims across Kerala celebrated Eid-Ul-Fitr by offering prayers and listening to clerics’ sermons at Eidgahs.
Eid celebrations were more visible in Muslim-dominated districts of Malappuram, Kozhikode, Kannur and Kasargode.
Muslims account for more than 24 percent of Kerala’s 32-million population.
In Thiruvananthapuram, the festival was celebrated at Chandrasekheran Nair Stadium next to the Palayam Juma Musjid where hundreds of people listened to the talk of Jamaludhin, the mosque’s imam.
In Kochi, Malayalam superstar Mammootty offered prayers at an Eidgah with his son Dulqar Salman.
In Kozhikode, Muslims from different factions organised a common Eidgah for all like last year.
Kerala state government has declared Monday as holiday for Eid.
In rest of India, Eid would be celebrated on Monday As there was no evidence of moon according to.
Qubul Pasha Shuttari of Ruhiyat-e-Hilal, the Moon Sighting Committee which met at the Hussaini Building at MJ Market on Saturday evening, made the announcement after getting confirmation from all the districts and neighbouring states that the crescent has not been sighted.