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A member of mosque staff prays in the otherwise empty Noor Ul Islam Mosque on the day before Ramadan commences in the UK, in Bury, Greater Manchester (AFP) By Published date: 7 March 2021 14:36 UTC | Last update: 1 week 6 days ago
On the first day of lockdown there was a strong sense of deja vu at the Al-Manaar Mosque in west London. The team was strongly reminded of when the mosque s doors were flung open in 2017 to the survivors of the nearby Grenfell Tower fire disaster. Overnight, its elegant halls were transformed into an emergency support centre.
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“Our advice, really, is to say that the vaccine has been shown to be safe, it s been shown to be effective, so you should not delay the vaccine on the account of Ramadan, it said.
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Traditional Ramadan customs should not be carried out as usual this year, he said.
“Ramadan is a wonderful time to spend with family and friends and in the mosque, during the night prayers, and so on, he said. But this year we will have to continue to be cautious, because even though people are getting the vaccine. Not enough people, not just in your city, your family, but in your country and even the world, have had the vaccine yet for us to say that we ve got enough herd immunity for us to go back to the way that we used to do things.”