Thousands of devotees offered prayers on the annual festival at the shrine of Jilani,

Kashmiri Muslim devotees pray outside the shrine of Sufi Saint Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani, during the saint's Urs, or yearly commemoration, in Srinagar, India, Friday, April 18, 2008.


Kashmiri Muslim women pray outside the shrine of Sufi Saint Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani, during the saint's Urs, or yearly commemoration, in Srinagar, India, Friday, April 18, 2008.

Kashmiri Muslim women devotees raise their hand as the pray outside the shrine of Sufi Saint Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani, during the saint's Urs or, yearly commemoration in Srinagar, India, Friday, April 18, 2008. Thousands of devotees offered prayers on the annual festival at the shrine of Jilani, whose tomb is in Baghdad.

Kashmiri Muslim devotees pray as the head priest, left wearing green turban, displays a relic of Sufi Saint Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani, during the saint's Urs, or yearly commemoration, in Srinagar, India, Friday, April 18, 2008.

Kashmiri Muslims pray as the head priest displays the holy relic believed to be a hair from the beard of Prophet Mohammad, on the Friday following the Islamic festival of Eid-e-Milad, Prophet Mohammed's birthday, in Srinagar, India, Friday, March 28, 2008.