Kashmiri Muslim devotees raise their hands for prayers as a head priest displays a relic of Islam"s Prophet Mohammed at the Hazratbal shrine following Friday of Mehraj-u-Alam, believed to mark the ascension of Prophet Mohammed to heaven, in Srinagar, on 8 July 2011. Kashmiri Muslims gathered at the Hazratbal shrine, which houses a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of the Prophet.

Photographer: Bilal Najar