Beginning of Hajj rituals, the largest tent settlement in the world was settled in Mina

Mecca: The Hajj ritual has begun in Saudi Arabia, where the world’s largest tent settlement has been established in Mina, where millions of pilgrims will stay overnight and pray to the Lord.

After performing the Fajr prayer, the pilgrims will leave for Arafa, the largest member of the Hajj pilgrimage, where they will listen to the Hajj sermon and perform the Zuhr and Asr prayers together.

About 2.5 million pilgrims from 160 countries, including 2 lakh pilgrims from Pakistan, reached Mina raising the voices of Allah. Where the sounds of ‘Labik Alham Labik’ are getting louder.

Scenes from hajj day-1 #Hajj1444 #Hajj #hajj2023 pic.twitter.com/TbUHJpxm4V

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Pilgrims will stay in Mina on Monday night and after Fajr prayer on Tuesday, they will leave from Mina for Maidan Arafat. The main pillar of Hajj “Waqf Arafa” will be performed on Tuesday. And Zuhr and Asr prayers will be shortened. They will perform dhikr throughout the day and go to Jabal Rahmat and pray for forgiveness for themselves and the Muslim Ummah. https://twitter.com/insharifain/status/1673175899963793408?s=20 As soon as the sun sets, the pilgrims will go to Muzdalifah, where they will perform Maghrib and Isha prayers, and spend the night under the open sky. From here they will collect pebbles to kill Jamarat, 10 Zil-Hajj will go back to Mina after Fajr, where Rumi will hit Jamarat, i.e. Satan, with pebbles. After the sacrifice, the pilgrims will take off their Ihram and go to the Kaaba and perform Tawaf pilgrimage and return to Mina and spend the days of Tashreeq.

Beautiful sunset in Mina today! pic.twitter.com/A52AekQPQF

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According to the statistics of the Saudi General Authority for Statistics, the number of pilgrims who have come for Hajj has exceeded 2.4 million so far.

Security arrangements

The government of Saudi Arabia and the management of Haramain Al-Sharif have made strong arrangements for security and other matters for the convenience of the pilgrims. Water is being sprinkled.

The Hajj Sermon will be broadcast in several languages

This year too, the Hajj sermon will be broadcast simultaneously in Arabic, Urdu, English, French, Chinese and other languages.

This year, 50 million people will listen to the Hajj sermon

The head of the General Presidency of the Haramain al-Sharifin and the Imam of the Kaaba, Abdul Rahman Al-Sadis, has said that we had planned for the Hajj sermon of 300 million people, but Allah guided us, after which 500 million people will be able to hear the Hajj sermon this year.

According to the Arab media, in order to avoid the rush, the government and the administration have decided that forty percent of the pilgrims will reach Arafat plain in the morning without staying at Mina.