The Quran enjoins all Muslims to perform the Pilgrimage to Mecca once in their lifetime if they can afford it and if the journey is safe. The centre of pilgrimage is Kaaba which according to the Quran, is the first house built for the worship of God. The object of […]
Reuters International JULY 14, 2017 (reuters_tickers) By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – A cholera epidemic in Yemen, which has infected more than 332,000 people, could spread during the annual haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia in September, although Saudi authorities are well prepared, the World Health Organization (WHO) said […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The prophet Muhammad had participated in several battles in the larger defensive war after his migration to Madinah […]
Source: Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran will allow its citizens to take part in this year’s hajj pilgrimage despite soaring tensions with arch rival Saudi Arabia. Iran’s semi-official […]
Source: BBC Saudi Arabia says Iranian citizens will attend this year’s annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, after missing last year’s event following a bitter rift between Riyadh and Tehran. Relations […]
Hajj 2018 began in the evening of Sunday, August 19 and ends in the evening of Friday, August 24. It should be a time to meditate on the universal brotherhood in Islam, rather than bragging rights of our particular sect. Ameen Source: The Express Tribune The Muslim Times has the […]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jean Louis Burckhardt Born November 24, 1784 Lausanne, Vaud Died October 15, 1817 (aged 32) Cairo, Egypt Eyalet Nationality Swiss Occupation traveler, geographer, orientalist Religion Sunni Islam Jean Louis (also known as John Lewis, Johann Ludwig) Burckhardt (November 24, 1784 – October 15, 1817) was a […]
Source: The Guardian By Miles Brignall For Tariq Khan* and his family, the pilgrimage to Mecca should have been the trip of a lifetime. But after paying more than £16,000 to […]
Epigraph: And remember the time when We assigned to Abraham the site of the House and said, ‘Associate not anything with Me, and keep My House clean for those who perform the circuits, and those who stand up and those who bow down and fall prostrate in Prayers; And proclaim […]
Postcards From the Hajj Our correspondent Diaa Hadid is one of millions of Muslims making the pilgrimage to Mecca A mountain of water bottles The pilgrims’ chants of “Here I […]
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/photos-hajj-one-worlds-largest-pilgrimages-1580904?utm_source=email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign= Nearly two million Muslim pilgrims have performed a symbolic stoning of the devil, the riskiest part of the annual hajj pilgrimage, a year after the ritual’s worst disaster in decades. Saudi Arabia has deployed thousands of security forces, civil defence staff and volunteers as well as modern technology including drones […]
Source: The Daily Star The hajj reached its high point yesterday when Muslims from across the world converged on a stoney hill in Saudi Arabia, a year after the worst […]
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post The annual hajj pilgrimage is one of the world’s largest gatherings, as some two million people flock to Mecca, […]
God, if you’re listening … My mum, of course, has instructed me to pray for a husband as I make my first hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca required of every Muslim. Also: the health of her best friend and the release, from jail in Egypt, of the son of my aunt’s […]
Source: Huffington Post Eid Mubarak! By HuffPost Religion Editors Eid al-Adha, also called the Festival of Sacrifice, falls on Monday, Sept. 12, 2016 in North America. It is one of two annual […]
What Muslims Do on Hajj, and Why, By Diaa Hadid, September 8, 2016 It is incumbent upon every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so to travel to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Islam’s holiest site, at least once in his or her lifetime. The annual pilgrimage is known as the […]
Each bracelet carries a bar code readable by smartphone. It indicates the pilgrim’s identity, nationality, place of lodging in Mecca, as well as other information, the vice secretary of the ministry of hajj and umrah, Issa Rawas, told AFP. Close to two million pilgrims have converged on western Saudi Arabia […]
Reuters International SEP 9, 2016 – Muslim pilgrims pray during Friday prayers at the Grand mosque in Mecca September 9, 2016. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah (reuters_tickers) By Dahlia Nehme MECCA (Reuters) – Construction projects to expand capacity at Mecca’s Grand Mosque and other Islamic holy sites will be completed in about […]
Source: Buzzfeed News By Aisha Gani Senior News Reporter, BuzzFeed UK 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 […]
Source: Dawn TEHRAN: With Iranians blocked from this month’s Haj pilgrimage, their supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a furious rebuke to Saudi Arabia, saying the Muslim world should challenge its management of Islam’s holiest sites. “Saudi rulers who have blocked the proud and faithful Iranian pilgrims’ path to the […]