In the footsteps of the father of the prophets .. Pilgrims go to Mona

Pilgrims from all over the world began to go to Mina, after performing the Fajr prayer on Friday in Mecca. The pilgrims will spend the day of Taraweeh, the first day of Hajj in Mina and stay there.

The roads leading to Mina were filled with pilgrims walking in longing and nostalgia for Muna cheering and growing up.While most pilgrims boarded the big buses between Mecca and Medina, other large numbers poured on foot to Mina, seven kilometers east of the Grand Mosque.

This year, the number of pilgrims reached about 2.5 million pilgrims, who arrived in Mecca from different parts of the earth, including more than 1.8 million foreign pilgrims.

Hajj
The pilgrims will spend the day of Tarawiya on the eighth of the month of Dhul-Hijjah in Mina. To witness the great stop and spend the greatest corner of the pilgrimage, and then alienated with the sunset to Muzdalifah.

On the night of the tenth of Dhul-Hijjah pilgrims stay in Mina, and collect gravel to use in throwing the cinder of the Great Aqaba on the tenth of Dhul-Hijjah, the first day of Eid al-Adha.

After throwing anthrax and slaughter, the pilgrims head to Mecca to perform the tawaaf al-ifaadah around the holy Kaaba, and then return to Mina again to spend the days of Tashreeq and throw the three stoned, small, middle and major.

After the expiration of the three days of Tashreeq or rush after two days, pilgrims head to Mecca to perform the farewell tawaaf where the rituals of Hajj end.

Temperatures exceeded 40 degrees Celsius, and some pilgrims in Mecca carried umbrellas in the vicinity of the Grand Mosque. The holy sites are equipped with columns that spray the cooled water spray to alleviate the heat.

The pilgrimage is one of the largest gatherings of human beings in the world every year, and is one of the five pillars of Islam and those who were able to perform at least once in a lifetime.

Hairy Mona
Mish'ar Mina is located seven kilometers east of Al-Masjid al-Haram, between Mecca and Muzdalifah. It is felt within the boundaries of the Haram and a valley surrounded by mountains on both sides of the north and south.

The area of ​​Mina, with its legal limits of 16.8 square kilometers, is one of the boundaries of the Haram surrounded by mountains. It is inhabited only during the pilgrimage period. It is bordered by Makkah, Aqaba, and Muzdalifah and Wadi Mahsar.

The remaining area of ​​the Khiam Monument, one of the largest projects implemented by the Saudi government, is being used to house pilgrims with an area of ​​2.5 million square meters, according to specifications that achieve greater security and safety, accommodating 2.6 million pilgrims, thus making Al Mashar the largest tent city in the world.

Mina has a historical and religious status, by throwing the Prophet of God Ibrahim - peace be upon him - Jamar, and slaughtered the ransom of Ismail, peace be upon him, then confirmed the Prophet Huda Muhammad - peace be upon him - this act in the farewell argument and then shaved.

What is perfusion?
The day of al-Tarwiyah is the first day of Hajj, and it is not known precisely why it is called by this name, especially since the pilgrims do not do more than set up prayers imposed exclusively without gathering, after ihraam.

It is likely that many scholars call it the day of perfusion is due to the pilgrims recite it from the water in Mecca to carry with them to Arafa and Muzdalifah.

Some say that the name came to shed legitimate blood in the pilgrimage, and was said to wish Adam in Paradise, and others saw it to meet people, and Arabs say to every place where people meet me.

But the pilgrims who went out to Mina today, few of them turned to the question about the meaning of this worship, they - and that is required in the work of the pilgrimage - follow in the footsteps of the Prophet Abraham, peace be upon him.