(6 Jun 2025)
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Nairobi, Kenya – 6 June 2025
1. Various Kenyan Muslims praying at the Kilimani Primary School ground
2: Set up shots Imam Abdulrahman Mursal
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Imam Abdulrahman Mursal:
"We remind Muslims about the importance of unity and being your sisters and brothers keeper. The things that pain us most is what is happening to our Muslims brothers and sisters in Palestine. We ask Allah Subhana Wata Allah (meaning glorious and exalted) to give them victory, they are facing oppression they are facing aggression that is being done to them, a lot of injustice, a lot of lives have been lost a lot of properties have been destroyed. We ask Allah Suhana Wata Allah to hear their cries; we feel their pain us much as we are far from them, but what unites us, the Muslim brotherhood, so we ask Subhana Wata Allah to give them victory and to give victory to all the other Muslim where ever they are if they are facing any kind of oppression."
4. Various Kenyan Muslim women sit, and others come for prayer at Kilimani Primary School
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Imam Abdulrahman Mursal:
"And that’s why as Muslims, we always start our celebrations with prayers and being thankful to Allah Subhana Wata Allah, Rasulu laah salalau aleihi wasalaam the prophet said about this day . In my Khutba (meaning in my sermon,) that it’s the greatest day, the day which Subhana Wata Allah has raised its status over all the other days of the year."
6. Various Kenyan Muslims praying at Kilimani Primary School
7. Kenyan Muslims buying goats to slaughter for sacrifice
STORYLINE:
Muslims around the world were on Friday celebrating Eid Al-Adha, a festival of sacrifice that commemorates the Prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son.
The day is marked with prayers, the symbolic sacrifice of animals and sharing food and gifts with family and friends.
Kenyan Muslims in Nairobi on Friday took part in celebrations and prayed for Muslims in the Gaza strip as they struggle to celebrate the occasion, with no fresh meat having entered the territory in three months and all homegrown sheep, cattle and goats dead after 20 months of Israeli attacks.
“We ask Allah to hear their [Palestinian] cries,"said Abdulrahman Mursal, as he led Eid prayers as an Imam in Nairobi.
"We feel their pain, as much as we are far from them. But what unites us is our Muslim brotherhood, so we ask Allah to give them victory and to give victory to all the other Muslims wherever they are, if they are facing any kind of oppression,” he added.
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