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Sadiq Khan leads call urging Muslims to stay home during Ramadan

Leading Muslim figures have united in a video urging all Muslims to stay at home this Ramadan.

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has already infected 129,044 people in the UK and claimed 17, 337 lives.


Muslims have been urged to protect the NHS by adhering to the lockdown rules which have been extended to May 11.

All mosques will be closed during Ramadan, which will stop Muslims coming together for congregational prayers. They have also been told to avoid gathering with family members to do Iftar - the brealing of the fast.

In the video, London Mayor Sadiq Khan says he will be doing Iftar at home this year and requested all Muslims to do the same.

Khan's message is shared by a whole host of Muslim personalities such as Hollywood star Riz Ahmed, musician Naughty Boy, comedian Tez Ilyas, presenter Konnie Huq, politicians Naz Shah and Baroness Warsi amongst others who have come together with doctors, nurses, police officers and firefighters to create the video.

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WHEN Rishi Sunak became an MP, he swore his oath on a copy of the Bhagvad Gita, but few people – including per­haps Britain’s first Asian prime minis­ter – will have been aware of the efforts of a Shropshire-born civil servant in that little moment of history.

Charles Wilkins (1749-1836) was an employee of the East India Company and an avid Sanskrit lover. He arrived in India and went on to study the language under scholars in then Benares (now Varanasi, which India’s prime minister Narendra Modi represents) and produced what is believed to be the first English translation of the holy Hindu text.

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