THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF COUNTRIES WHERE PROPHETs BIRTHDAY/MAWLID/MAULUD IS A NATIONAL HOLIDAY:- # AFRICAN # COUNTRIES :- Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Comoros, Co´te dIvoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Togo, (In Africa, a total of 25 countries out of 54) *. # MIDLE #EAST :- Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestinian National Authority, Syria, United Arab Emirate/UAE, Yemen (11 out of total 14 except Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia). *. # ASIA:- Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan *. # OTHERS : Fiji, Guyana, ALHAMDULILLAH! A TOTAL OF 47 COUNTRIES WORLD-WIDE OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZE MAWLID AS A PUBLIC/ NATIONAL HOLIDAY, SOME OF THEM ARE NOT EVEN MUSLIM DOMINATED LIKE: INDIA, SRI-LANKA, FIJI, GUYANA, TANZANIA, ETC. THERE ARE OTHER PLACES LIKE CANADA, USA, EUROPEAN CONTRIES AND SEVERAL AFRICAN AND SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES WHERE MUSLIMS IN LARGE POPULATION CELEBRATE MAWLID. (SOURCE:- Department Of Awqaaf - U.A.E). I WILL USE THIS MEDIUM TO SAY # HAPPY #MAULID TO THE WHOLE MUSLIM OF THE WORLD.
Posted on: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:41:58 +0000