Special prayers marked the observance of Shab-e-Barat within the metropolis on Sunday. The celebration, also referred to as the ‘night of forgiveness,’ is commemorated on the fifteenth of the Islamic month of Shaban. Mosques all through town have been illuminated, drawing giant crowds for the festivities. Fruit distributors prolonged their hours, lining town’s roads late into the evening, whereas flower distributors skilled a surge in business. The metropolis’s graves acquired particular consideration as people paid homage to their family members on the intervening evening of Sunday and Monday. The Telangana State Wakf Board and the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation took measures to make sure cleanliness on all graveyards within the Twin Cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad.
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