{"id":8333,"date":"2009-10-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/11\/renowned-muslim-cleric-at-the-kumbh-mela-seeking-religious-harmony\/"},"modified":"2009-10-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T12:00:00","slug":"renowned-muslim-cleric-at-the-kumbh-mela-seeking-religious-harmony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/11\/renowned-muslim-cleric-at-the-kumbh-mela-seeking-religious-harmony\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned Muslim Cleric at the Kumbh Mela, Seeking Religious Harmony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/2009\/10\/03\/stories\/2009100355140700.htm\">www.thehindu.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LUCKNOW, INDIA, October 2, 2009: A dip in the sacred river during the Maha Kumbh Mela is said to wash away all sins. A senior Muslim cleric who will perform the Hindu rite hopes it will also wash away religious differences.<\/p>\n<p>Kalbe Sadiq, a noted Shia cleric and senior vice-president of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, will take the &#8220;holy dip&#8221; in the upcoming Maha Kumbh Mela to be held in Haridwar in 2010 in a personal quest to inspire others to religious harmony. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the sake of cementing the bond between Hindus and Muslims, I have decided to perform the ritual (holy dip) in the Ganga River, considered sacred and revered,&#8221; Sadiq told IANS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.thehindu.com LUCKNOW, INDIA, October 2, 2009: A dip in the sacred river during the Maha Kumbh Mela is said,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}