Hajj is performed between the 8th and 12th (or 13th) days of Dhu al-Hijjah, the 12th and final month of the Islamic calendar.

With Eid-ul-Adha 2025 just around the corner, know all about Muslims' pilgrimage to Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia and Hajj 2025 date during Dhul Hijjah 1446 AH.

Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was born around 570, AD in Mecca. His father died before he was born and he was raised first by his grandfather and then his uncle. He belonged to a poor but respectable ...

President Dr. Arif Alvi says Prophet Muhammad (SAWW) is the great role model for Muslims in every aspect of life. Addressing the concluding session of two-day International Rehmatal-Lil-Aalameen ...

Each year, pilgrims travel to this site for Hajj (a mandatory pilgrimage muslims need to make during Dhul-Hijjah at least once in their lifetimes) and Umrah (voluntary pilgrimage that can be performed ...

Mecca the birthplace of the prophet Mohammed ... tribal ethos of neighbouring pagan communities. Er, and the prophet Muhammad very much follows in that tradition. Of course he is an Arab in ...

Rabbi Mukhayriq announced to his people that he would fight to protect Prophet Muhammad from the pagan Arabs of Mecca; and he did fight and die in battle against the Meccans on that Shabbat.

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The first batch of Gombe State pilgrims has departed Medina for Mecca to continue their Hajj rites, the state Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board said on Friday.According to a statement by the board’s media ...

In pre-Islamic Arabia time of “jahiliyyah”, some pagan idols were placed around the Kaaba but in 630 CE, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) led the believers from Medina to Mecca and cleansed the Kaaba ...

A Paleo-Arabic inscription on a boulder near an abandoned mosque in Saudi Arabia may have been carved by Ḥanẓalah bin Abī ʿĀmir, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, a new study finds.