The pilgrims of the Sacred House of God, after sunset on this ninth day of the current month of Dhul-Hijjah 1443 AH, began to head to Muzdalifah after performing the greatest pillar of Hajj, which is standing in Arafat.

Upon their arrival in Muzdalifah, the guests of the Most Merciful will perform the Maghrib and Isha prayers together, following the Sunnah of the Prophet - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - and spend the night in Muzdalifah, then they will go to Mina after the dawn prayer tomorrow (Eid al-Adha) to stone Jamrat Al-Aqabah and sacrifice the sacrificial animal.

The pilgrims of the ancient House of God had spent yesterday on the day of Tarwiyah (the eighth of Dhul-Hijjah) in Mina, near Mecca, following the Sunnah of the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace.

In Arafat, about one million pilgrims - including 850,000 from outside Saudi Arabia - performed the Zuhr and Asr prayers short and combined in the Namera Mosque on the level of Arafat, and the pilgrims listened to the sermon on the Greatest Hajj Day delivered by the Secretary-General of the Muslim World League, Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa.

Khatib Irfan focused on the importance of rejecting "discord and disharmony" among Muslims, and said that good manners is a common value among all people and a rational behavior of society.

Al-Issa added that Islam is an all-encompassing spirit, and its noble Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, is the leader, pointing to the need to confront misconceptions about Islam.

The guests of the Most Merciful will stay in the area of ​​Arafat until sunset, after which they will go to Muzdalifah, where they will perform the Maghrib and Isha prayers together, and spend their nights there in preparation for the deeds of the Day of Sacrifice.

Mount Arafat is located more than 20 kilometers to the east of Makkah Al-Mukarramah, and 10 kilometers from the Shaar of Mina, where pilgrims will go to stone the Jamarat tomorrow, Saturday, the first day of Eid Al-Adha.

Arafat is the only one of the holy sites that lies outside the boundaries of the Great Mosque of Mecca.

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tears and prayers

As soon as they reached Arafat, the pilgrims sat down, some prayed, others shed tears, and some took selfies to document these important moments in their lives. Some pilgrims went to the Namira Mosque.

Egyptian Hajji Farhana Amin said, "I did not dream of being here. Praise be to God, our Lord has blessed us with the pilgrimage after years in which I sought to perform the obligatory prayer."

The homelands were not absent from the prayers and wishes of the pilgrims. Tunisian Hajj Afif Al-Ghanimi said, "My feeling today is that of Fayyad... a strange feeling. I ask my Lord for stability for all countries and for our country Tunisia, and we hope that it will rise economically and socially."

This year's season is the first after the restrictions imposed by the Corona virus were lifted in the past two years, as the pandemic greatly reduced the number of pilgrims, and pilgrims were limited to pilgrims from within the Kingdom.

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strict measures

Rituals are performed this year amid strict security and health measures in the first Hajj season, two years after the spread of the Corona pandemic, and among the most prominent of these measures is the sterilization of the Grand Mosque 12 times a day.

The Saudi authorities allowed one million Muslims who received vaccines against the Corona virus to perform the Hajj this year, after two years of significantly reducing the numbers due to the epidemic.

And the Hajj season this year - in which the participants were chosen by lottery - is much larger than the previous two seasons, but it is still smaller than normal times. of performing it once in their lifetime.


But then, the outbreak of the Corona virus forced the authorities to significantly reduce the number of pilgrims, so 60 thousand citizens and residents of the Kingdom participated, who were fully vaccinated last season (pilgrimage 1442 AH) compared to a few thousand season before, which witnessed the beginning of the pandemic.

This year's pilgrimage is limited to the age group less than 65 years, with the requirement to complete immunization with basic doses of Corona vaccines approved by the Saudi Ministry of Health.

The authorities established many health facilities and mobile clinics, and equipped ambulances to meet the needs of pilgrims, especially with the high temperatures.

Ambulance teams are deployed in various locations inside the Grand Mosque, and dozens of volunteers line up in long queues holding wheelchairs to help those who cannot walk long distances.