Adherents of various beliefs last week rose from inter-faith conference organised by the Ahmadiya Muslim Jamaat, Eastern Zone with a resolve to come together to fight all forms of religious deviants in the society.

The Katsina State Government has approved an additional N97 million for securing befitting accommodation for its pilgrims participating in the 2014 Hajj.

Hajj is the Muslim pilgrimage to the holy land of Makkah and other places in Saudi Arabia during the month of Hajj with specific conditions. Hajj is the last pillars of Islam, after Kalimatu Shahadah (the testimony that none is worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad (SAW) is His Apostle and Messenger); the five daily Salats; the fasting of Ramadan and the Zakat (compulsory alms giving).

Before the announcement by the Sultan declaring that the moon had been sighted, marking the end of Ramadan on Satuday July 26, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, the Secretary-General of the NSCIA, had been quoted saying: “The new moon has not even been born talk less that it would be sighted today.”

Somehow, and in recent times, the sighting of the moon, beginning and ending of the Ramadan fast have paradoxically become a source of division, rather than unity for the Muslim Ummah in this country.