Mosque in Zambian Capital Hosts Takleef Celebration for Girls
It was held for girls on the occasion of the ten-day Karamat festival.
Girls and their family members from different nationalities, including Zambian, Lebanese, Indian and Pakistani took part in the program.
It featured speeches about Takleef, Hijab-wearing for the girls, and elegy recitations in praise of Ahl-ul-Bayt (AS).
The Karamat celebrations mark the ten days between the birth anniversaries of Hazrat Masoumeh (SA) and Imam Reza (AS), the daughter and son of the 7th Shia Imam.
Zambia is a landlocked country in southern Africa and its neighbors are the Democratic Republic of Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique to the southeast, Zimbabwe and Botswana to the south, Namibia to the southwest, and Angola to the west.
The official language of the country is English and less than one percent of its population is Muslim.
