ARAFAT (Makkah): Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims crowded the rocky rise known as Mount Arafat on Tuesday to pray at the height of Haj pilgrimage, as Saudi scholar and Member of the ...

Unlike Makkah, dotted with hotels and malls, and the tents of Mina, air-conditioned shelter is scarce. 'Blessed' As helicopters buzzed overhead, entry roads were packed with worshippers.

The Chairman of the commission, Alhaji Abdullahi Mukhtar, disclosed this at a pre-Arafat stakeholders meeting at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He said 14 pilgrims died due to cardiac arrest and other ...

Makkah to keep Arafat greenThe municipality said it used strong insecticides that were not harmful. Meanwhile, a total of 140,094 out of 168,000 non-Arab African pilgrims have so far left the ...

Delivering Hajj sermon at Masjid-e-Nimrah in Maidan-e-Arafat, Imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah Sheikh Maher Al-Muaiqly urged Muslims to forge unity and create helping spirit, saying it would ...

Hajj Rituals on Mount Arafat 2024: More than 1.5 million Muslims will pray on Mount Arafat in soaring temperatures on Saturday, in the high-point and most gruelling day of the annual hajj pilgrimage.

The ritual marks the start of the three-day Eidul Azha holiday. Afterwards, the pilgrims return to Makkah to perform a farewell tawaf — walking seven times around the Holy Kaaba.

The pilgrims will be staying at Mina in their state of Ihram. They will proceed to Mount Arafat on Tuesday and subsequently move to Muzadalifah where they will spend the night in the open.

According to the NCM website, temperature reached 34 degrees in the morning in Makkah, with southeasterly winds reaching a speed of 10-20 km/h. Temperatures mid-morning reached 34 degrees in Mina ...

Pilgrims gather on Arafat“Everyone in here is equal. There are no differences between various nationalities. This is the religion of peace, love and brotherhood.” More than 1.83mn pilgrims ...