Millions of pilgrims streamed into Makkah’s Grand Mosque 🕌 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Saturday to perform their final rituals before the annual Hajj begins on Monday. TheCitizen hajj SaudiArabia
In 2019, about 2.5 million people took part. Only 10,000 were allowed in 2020, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, rising to nearly 59,000 a year later.was granted an additional one thousand pilgrims to the base quota of 2 500.Late on Sunday pilgrims will start moving to the city of Mina, about five kilometres from the Grand Mosque and sleep in tents on Monday night ahead of the Hajj’s climax at Mount Arafat, where Prophet Mohammed delivered his final sermon.
After sunset, they will journey the short distance to Muzdalifah, where they will sleep under the stars before returning to Mina and perform the symbolic “stoning of the devil” ceremony on Wednesday. After casting pebbles in the “stoning of the devil” for three days, marking the start of the Eid al-Adha religious holiday, pilgrims return to Makkah to perform a farewell “tawaf” – circling seven times around the holy Ka’ba.
The Hajj, usually one of the world’s largest annual religious gatherings, is one of the five pillars of Islam and must be undertaken by allEid al-Adha will be celebrated on Thursday in South Africa.
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