This year’s summer timing for the haj will test the endurance of worshippers during the four-day, mostly outdoor ritual. Read more at straitstimes.com.
with more than two million expected to brave the scorching Saudi Arabian heat.
Rites include circling the Kaaba, the large black cube in Mecca’s Grand Mosque, praying on Mount Arafat andMore than two million people from more than 160 countries will attend, Mr Rabiah said – a dramatic increase on the 926,000 from last year, when numbers were capped at one million post-pandemic. “It is an unbelievable feeling that is very emotional,” Ms Souad bin Oueis, a 60-year-old Moroccan pilgrim, told AFP after arriving on her first visit to Saudi Arabia along with her husband.
After casting pebbles in the “stoning of the devil” ritual on Wednesday, marking the start of the Eid al-Adha holiday, pilgrims return to Mecca to perform a farewell “tawaf” – circling seven times around the Kaaba.
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