Source: Buzzfeed News
By Aisha Gani
Nearly 2 million Muslims from around the world are gathering this weekend in Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, for the annual pilgrimage.
Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam, and Muslims believe it fosters universal relationships and symbolizes how everyone is equal in the eyes of Allah. It is a journey every sane adult Muslim from every race, color, and social status must undertake at least once in their lives, as long as they are physically able and can afford it.
These are some of the people taking the journey to Saudi Arabia this year.
1. This pilgrim who cycled from China.
Man rides bike all the way from China’s Xinjiang to Makkah to perform Haj http://bit.ly/2b8h6dD
A Chinese man who goes by the name Mohamed rode his bicycle all the way into Saudi Arabia to perform hajj and was welcomed by a local cycling club in Taif, a city in the Mecca province, when he arrived, according to local news reports. Mohamed reportedly cycled over 5,000 miles from his home in Xinjiang, northwest China, which took him nearly four months.
2. And this pilgrim who cycled from Russia.
A Russian pilgrim riding his bicycle from Medina to Makkah.#Hajj #SaudiArabia
Bulat Nassib Abdulla, 24, left Russia on the first day of Ramadan on June 6, cycling his way to reach Saudi Arabia for the annual pilgrimage, reported local Saudi news websites. He was welcomed by Saudi hajj officials in Medina, a city in the west of Saudi Arabia.
Categories: Hajj, Islam, Muslims, The Muslim Times
This year’s (1437) pilgrims were partly misled to stand on Mount Arafaat on the day following Arafa Day, instead of Arafa Day itself, so that they stand on the 11th September 2016 on which the 15th anniversary of the jewish “Trumpets Day” qabbaalistic attacks of 2001 is held. Thanks God, the qabbaala-jewish misleaders failed to bring the whole number of the moslem pilgrims, and a good number of them showed up on Arafaat on the right and the earlier day, the 10th September 2016. To try to lure some pilgrims into their 11th September trap-day, they artificially claimed that they couldn’t see through some clouds the new Helaal in Hautat Sodayr, instead of the religion-legal action of honestly gazing for the dhou-al’Hedjdja Helaal in Macca or its surroundings. Hautat Sodayr is completely a religion-illegal place to know the right start of the new lunar month in Bacca and its surroundings, since it is placed in an entirely different time-zone and some 900 kilometers away approximately !!!! – Allaah ya DJabbaar ya Montaqem, make their earthly punishment soon, for this crime was not small at all.