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23-year-old Muazzin of Khanqah e Faiz Panah Tral dies in road accident

By News Desk

June 26, 2023

Meer Irfan

A 23-year-old Muazzin (one who recites Adhaan) of Khanqah-e-Faiz Panah (Shah e Hamdan’s mosque) in Tral area of south Kashmir breathed his last on Monday morning.

Locals told The Kashmiriyat that on Sunday Owais Ahmed Ganie, a resident of Tral who was riding his two-wheeler met with an accident near the Diver Road area of Pulwama district.

Owais Ahmad Ganie who was the Muazzin and Naib Imam Khanqah-e-Faiz Panah Tral was rushed to SDH Tral where from he was shifted to Srinagar hospital in critical condition, they said.

The 21-year-old succumbed to his injuries on Sunday morning at a hospital in Srinagar.

“He was a pious soul and had been praying five times a day and asking others to do the same. On Sunday, he recited Quran, Mankabats and Naats at the Khanqah of Ameer e Kabeer in Tral on his annual urs. Thousands of people praised his melodious voice and his religious devotion at such a young age,” a local said.