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<\/p>\nEarlier there were rumors that shops can be kept opened during Prayer Times in Saudi Arabia and the law to keep the shops closed during Prayer Times got changed.<\/p>\n
No, Saudi Arabia is not going to allow shops to stay open during prayers as a practice which is followed since ages in the kingdom.<\/p>\n
As a Muslim country Saudi Arabia has been practicing closure of shops during Prayer times for good to have all the shopkeepers perform their prayers.<\/p>\n
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Closing Shops for Prayers shouldn’t take much time for more than 15 mins per prayers which means it will be not more than 75 mins per day for 5 prayers.<\/p>\n
Now, to boost Sales around the kingdom and to compensate the time the shops closed for prayers timings a new measure has been taken which allows the shops to be kept open 24 hours or extend their business hours than normal timings.<\/p>\n
Businesses who are willing to operate round the clock (24 hours business) should pay a fee to the government which will be decided by the Ministry of Municipal & Rural Affairs.<\/p>\n
Saudi Arabia’s Cabinet announced the new measure on Tuesday via the state-run Saudi Press Agency. Previous media reports falsely claimed that the new measure puts an end to the mandatory closure during prayer times. However, in the state-run report, there is no explicit mention of it. Had the law been repealed, it would have been addressed with much more volume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"