{"id":13466,"date":"2023-11-17T04:35:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T04:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/17\/tourist-stopped-from-offering-namaaz-at-taj-mahal-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2023-11-17T04:35:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T04:35:21","slug":"tourist-stopped-from-offering-namaaz-at-taj-mahal-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/17\/tourist-stopped-from-offering-namaaz-at-taj-mahal-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist stopped from offering \u2018namaaz\u2019 at Taj Mahal &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-504395\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-header post-tp-1-header\">\n<div class=\"single-featured\">\n<figure>\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taj Mahal  (Photo: Pawan Sharma\/IANS<\/figcaption>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix single-post-content\">\n<p>Agra: A tourist hailing from West Bengal was restrained from performing \u2018namaz\u2019 in the garden of the Taj Mahal, police said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place on Saturday when Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel on duty observed the tourist laying out his prayer mat, which prompted intervention to prevent the religious ritual.<\/p>\n<p>Senior conservation assistant for the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Prince Vajpayee, said, \u201cA video surfaced on Thursday and upon verification, it was confirmed that a tourist from West Bengal had unfurled his prayer mat in the Taj Mahal garden, preparing for \u2018namaz\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Industrial Security Force personnel promptly intervened in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tourist was escorted to the control room, where he expressed ignorance about the prohibition on offering \u2018namaz\u2019 at the Taj Mahal. Subsequently, he submitted a written apology and was allowed to proceed with his visit. Prince Vajpayee clarified that the actual prayer was not performed, and the tourist complied with the regulations upon being informed.<\/p>\n<p>(IANS)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#13; &#13;Taj Mahal (Photo: Pawan Sharma\/IANS&#13; &#13; &#13; Agra: A tourist hailing from West Bengal was restrained from performing \u2018namaz\u2019 in the garden of the Taj Mahal, police said on Friday. The incident took place on Saturday when Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel on duty observed the tourist laying out his prayer mat, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13468,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions\/13468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}