The 55th edition of Bishwa Ijtema will end with the second phase’s Akheri Munajat or final prayer on Sunday (Jan 19) on the banks of the river Turag at Tongi.
Maulana Muhammad Jamshed, an Indian preacher, is scheduled to conduct the munajat seeking divine blessings for all around 11:30am.
Hundreds of thousands of Muslim devotees braved a cold spell to take part in the final prayers on the banks of the Turag in Gazipur's Tongi on Saturday (Jan 18), amid heightened security measures.
The Muslim devotees have thronged the Ijtema ground under the open sky while more than 2,500 foreign devotees from 35 countries, including from Jordan, Libya, Africa, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Palestine, the USA, Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, England, joined the Ijtema from the first day of the second phase.
However, the presence of people is less compared to the first phase.
Bangladesh Railway (BR) has scheduled special trains for easy transportation of devotees on the occasion of the first and second phase of 55th Bishwa Ijtema.
Earlier, the first phase of the Ijtema was held on Jan 10 to 12 at the same venue.
Followers of Moulana Zubair joined the first phase of Ijtema while the second phase is alloted to the disciples of Moulana Mohammed Saad Kandhalvi, a Delhi-based member of the Tabligh Jamaat Supreme Council.
Tablig Jamaat has been organizing the Bishwa Ijtema on the bank of Turag river since 1967. Now, Ijtema is being held in two phases since 2011 to ease the accommodation problem.