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Exterior view of the old granary, Qasr al-Haj, located on the plains amid the once rich farmland below the Jebel Nafusa mountains in Libya. This is one of the best preserved and easiest to access. If it is locked and nobody noticed your arrival ask at the butchers or other nearby shops to arrange access (within normal opening hours).
“الحج رحلة محفوفة بالتعب و الترقب ، تبدأُ بالأمل و تنتهي باليقين و الشك .
اليقين بروعة الإيمان ، و الشك في أهمية كل الماديات في حياتنا .”
The Pilgrimage to Makkah
The annual pilgrimage (Hajj) to Makkah is an obligation once in a lifetime for those who are physically and financially able to perform it. About two million people go to Makkah each year from every corner of the globe. Although Makkah is always filled with visitors, the annualHajj is performed in the twelfth month of the Islamic calendar. Male pilgrims wear special simple clothes which strip away distinctions of class and culture so that all stand equal before God.
The rites of the Hajj include circling the Kaaba seven times and going seven times between the hillocks of Safa and Marwa, as Hagar did during her search for water. Then the pilgrims stand together in Arafa5 and ask God for what they wish and for His forgiveness, in what is often thought of as a preview of the Day of Judgment.
The end of the Hajj is marked by a festival, Eid Al-Adha, which is celebrated with prayers. This, and Eid al-Fitr, a feast-day commemorating the end of Ramadan, are the two annual festivals of the Muslim calendar.
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Getting my gear out and going back to 52 project after a long time. Tutti is one of the places that I go often because of the peaceful and quite environment, I saw this old man fishing by the Nile bank and he was pleased when I asked him if it is ok to take some photos of him.
My name is Abd Elmoneim Fadl Allah, he said when I asked about his name. He told me that he lives in Tutti and he loves fishing, he usually comes to this spot in afternoons to relax after the long days of work, "I'm a ceramic fitter"; he mentioned! He continues "nowadays, fishes already escaped from this place, many fishermen do it in a wrong way! and here we are, no fishes as they used to be". And with a laugh he showed me a medium sized fish he caught.
Along with the good-bye, he invited me to come back another time, and he said he would be grateful if I could give him a print of his photo!
The Hajj "pilgrimage" is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims, and a mandatory religious duty for Muslims that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by all adult Muslims who are physically and financially capable of undertaking the journey, and can support their family during their absence
A few days back, when a couple of my paternal aunts, one of their husband, and my father left for Hajj- the annual pilgrimage to Mecca/Medina.
My aunt had lost her husband earlier in the year. He was supposed to accompany her to Hajj but God had other plans.
Hillview H/S, Chittagong.
All my uncles and cousins live nearby and almost all were there to bid farewell to the family members leaving for Hajj.
Hillview H/S, Chittagong.
مسجد الحرام هو أعظم مسجد في الإسلام ويقع في قلب مدينة مكة في الحجاز غرب المملكة العربية السعودية، تتوسطه الكعبة المشرفة التي هي أول بناء وضع على وجه الأرض تبعاً للعقيدة الإسلامية، وهذه هي أعظم وأقدس بقعة على وجه الأرض عند المسلمين. والمسجد الحرام هو قبلة المسلمين في صلاتهم. سمى بالمسجد الحرام لحرمه القتال فيه منذ دخول النبي المصطفى إلى مكة المكرمة منتصرا ويعتقد المسلمون أن الصلاة فيه تعادل مئة ألف صلاة.
ذكر القرآن "إِنَّ أَوَّلَ بَيْتٍ وُضِعَ لِلنَّاسِ لَلَّذِي بِبَكَّةَ مُبَارَكًا وَهُدًى لِّلْعَالَمِينَ " (آل عمران: آية 96)
Al-Masjid al-Ḥarām (Arabic: المسجد الحرام, "The Sacred Mosque") is the largest mosque in the world. Located in the city of Mecca, it surrounds the Kaaba, the place which Muslims worldwide turn towards while offering daily prayers and is Islam's holiest place. The mosque is also known as the Grand Mosque.[1]
The current structure covers an area of 356,800 square metres (88.2 acres) including the outdoor and indoor praying spaces and can accommodate up to four million Muslim worshippers during the Hajj period, one of the largest annual gatherings of people in the world.
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Hajj
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A supplicating pilgrim at Masjid al-Haram, the mosque which was built around the Kaaba ("cube"), (the building at center). In this image of the Hajj from 2003, thousands of pilgrims are walking around the Kaaba in a counter-clockwise direction (Tawaf).For other uses, see Hajj (disambiguation).
The Hajj (Arabic: حج Ḥaǧǧ) is a pilgrimage to Mecca. It is currently the largest annual pilgrimage in the world and is the fifth pillar of Islam, a moral obligation that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so. The Hajj is a demonstration of the solidarity of the Muslim people, and their submission to God (Allah in the Arabic language). The pilgrimage occurs from the 7th to 13th day of Dhu al-Hijjah, the 12th month of the Islamic calendar. Because the Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar, eleven days shorter than the Gregorian calendar used in the Western world, the Gregorian date of the Hajj changes from year to year. In 2007, the Hajj was from December 17–21; in 2008 from December 6–10, and in 2009 it was from November 25–29. Ihram is the name given to the special state in which Muslims live whilst on the pilgrimage,
The Hajj is associated with the life of Islamic prophet Muhammad from the 7th century, but the ritual of pilgrimage to Mecca is considered by Muslims to stretch back thousands of years to the time of Ibrahim (Abraham). Pilgrims join processions of hundreds of thousands of people, who simultaneously converge on Mecca for the week of the Hajj, and perform a series of rituals: Each person walks counter-clockwise seven times about the Ka'bah, the cube-shaped building which acts as the Muslim direction of prayer, kisses the Black Stone in the corner of the Kaaba, runs back and forth between the hills of Al-Safa and Al-Marwah, drinks from the Zamzam Well, goes to the plains of Mount Arafat to stand in vigil, and throws stones in a ritual Stoning of the Devil. The pilgrims then shave their heads, perform a ritual of animal sacrifice, and celebrate the four day global festival of Eid al-Adha.
As of 2008, about three million pilgrims participated in this annual pilgrimage. Crowd-control techniques have become critical, and because of the large numbers of people, many of the rituals have become more stylized. It is not necessary to kiss the Black Stone, but merely to point at it on each circuit around the Kaaba. Throwing pebbles was done at large pillars, which for safety reasons in 2004 were changed to long walls with catch basins below to catch the stones. The slaughter of an animal can be done either personally, or by appointing someone else to do it, and so forth.[8] But even with the crowd control techniques, there are still many incidents during the Hajj, as pilgrims are trampled in a crush, or ramps collapse under the weight of the many visitors, causing hundreds of deaths. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Hajj has a website, with the message, "Be peaceful, orderly and kind. No crushing."
Pilgrims can also go to Mecca to perform the rituals at other times of the year. This is sometimes called the "lesser pilgrimage", or Umrah. However, even if they perform the Umrah, they are still obligated to perform the Hajj at some other point in their lifetimes if they have the means to do so.
Three weeks before Eid, eager pilgrims await to depart for Jeddah from Berbera International Airport to make their Hajj.
During the Hajj, pilgrims spend one night in Muzdalifah and the following morning travel to Mina. Muzdalifah is located between Arafat and Mina and stretches from the valley of Muhassar to the mountains of Ma’zamayn. Muzdalifah means approach in English.
During the brief stay in Muzdalifah, pilgrims collect small pebbles which will be used in the following days for the rite known as "Rami al Jamarat" (stoning of the Jamarat) in Mina.