More than 1.5 million pilgrims went to Arafat

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, on the eve of Eid al-Adha, at dawn today, the 9th of Dhu Hijjah. (According to the Saudi calendar) more than one and a half million pilgrims to the House of God left for Arafat after spending the night in Mina to fulfill the main pillar of Hajj. Half a million pilgrims from all over the world had come to this country. Of course, official warnings in Saudi Arabia about the country’s weather have also increased, and the Saudi Ministry of Health reported that the high temperature is the biggest challenge in this year’s Hajj.

Before the pilgrims to the House of God at dawn Today, the Saudi Ministry of Interior issued a statement announcing the completion of the process of transferring pilgrims from Makkah and Masjid Al-Haram to Mina to spend the night there and then go to Arafat.

This ministry also announced: More A quarter of a million people who did not have a Hajj visa were deported. Mount Arafat is located on the road between the two cities of Makkah and Taif, 10 kilometers from Mashar Mena, and pilgrims are supposed to pray noon and evening prayers in Arafat, then listen to the sermon of Arafa from Nimrah Mosque and after sunset today they will go to Muzdalifah to spend the night there and prepare for Rami Jamrah. They return to Mena and then shave their hair and perform the sacrifice ceremony.

We must remind, the big difference between this year’s Hajj and the previous years is that this year, the pilgrims visit the House of God while the Islamic Ummah He is saddened by the great calamity that the Palestinian people have suffered in the Gaza Strip in the shadow of the brutal war of the Zionist enemy.

Accordingly, appeals have been issued in the Gaza Strip, in which the pilgrims of the House of God are asked on behalf of The martyrs of Palestine should perform Umrah and remember these martyrs. Arafat is over