The driver of a speeding car lost control of the vehicle, striking fasting individuals seated outside a mosque in Makkah for iftar. Tragically, one person was killed, and 21 others…
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The spiritual ceremony of bathing the Kaaba began in Makkah and the door of the Holy Kaaba was opened to perform the sacred ritual. The key-bearer of the Holy Kaaba…
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This year’s annual Haj pilgrimage has drawn more than 1.8 million worshippers, with most of the faithful coming from abroad. A day earlier, hundreds of thousands of Muslims crowded Mount…
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‘The Hajj is not Makkah’: Why prayers at Mount Arafat are the spiritual peak of Islamic pilgrimage
They came in the dark of night, in the thousands, to clamber up the rocky hill called Mount Arafat. The mound southeast of Makkah is little known outside Islam. For…
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday performed Umrah in Makkah along with his delegation. The prime minister performed the rituals of Umrah and prayed for country’s peace, progress and prosperity.…
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Thousands of pilgrims started arriving in the holy city of Makkah in Saudi Arabia on Friday, among some one million Muslims expected to attend the 2022 Haj pilgrimage season after…
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif performed Umrah in Makkah on Saturday. The doors of Khana Kaaba were especially opened for the Prime Minister and his delegation. On the occasion, the Prime…
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Shafaqna Pakistan: Pilgrims will begin to arrive in the Muslim holy city of Makkah on Saturday for the second downsized hajj staged during the coronavirus pandemic with only fully vaccinated…
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Shafaqna Pakistan: As a Muslim, at least once a year I go on pilgrimage to Makkah, Islam’s holiest city, located in Saudi Arabia. Muslims perform the short “Umrah” pilgrimage at…
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Shafaqna Pakistan: Shab-e-Miraj, the night when the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) ascended to the highest levels of heavens, will be observed across the country with religious devotion…
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Pilgrims concluded the smallest Hajj in modern history amid the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday. Only up to 10,000 Muslims took part in the Hajj, a far cry from the 2.5…
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Masked pilgrims scaled Mount Arafat on Thursday to pray and repent in the climax of this year’s Haj, the smallest in modern times because of coronavirus restrictions. A tight security…
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Delivering the Hajj sermon in Makkah from Masjid-e-Nimra in Arafat, Sheikh Abdullah bin Sulaiman on Thursday said that in times of adversity, such as the current coronavirus pandemic, we must…
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RIYADH: Saudi authorities announced on Monday that this year’s Hajj will start on July 29 after it was scaled back to include only around 1,000 pilgrims due to the coronavirus…
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Shafaqna Pakistan: For that, one must compare this with destruction of Muslim shrines which Saudi King Ibn Saud and his Wahhabi allies did in Madinah and Makkah (Saudi Arabia). Who desecrated…
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Shafaqa Pakistan: Indonesia on Tuesday called for Saudi Arabia to decide if it will allow the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Makkah, after the coronavirus pandemic plunged the ritual into doubt.…
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Shafaqna Pakistan: Saudi Arabia will enforce a 24-hour curfew across the kingdom during a five-day holiday to celebrate Eidul Fitr, the interior ministry said in a statement, to stem the spread…
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Shafaqna Pakistan:Saudi Arabia on Thursday emptied Makkah’s Grand Mosque for sterilisation over fears of the novel coronavirus, an unprecedented move after the kingdom suspended the year-round Umrah pilgrimage. State television…
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Shafaqna Pakistan:Amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, Saudi Arabia has imposed temporary ban on local pilgrims from performing Umrah as experts suggested that COVID-19 is highly contagious and can permeate faster in crowds.…
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Shafaqna Pakistan:Love (or lust?) is in the air in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as the country prepares for Valentine’s Day tomorrow following decades of the practice of marking the…