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Today is the big Eid or Eid Aladha. It is the tenth of Thulhijjah. The pilgrim will start by throwing seven stones at the place of the devil, (Jamratul Aqaba). It is a big concrete plate with a pillar in the center of it. The pilgrim can make his (hady) if he is (mutamatii). Then, he cuts or shortens his hair, preferably, cutting is better. The woman may shorten about two centimeters from her hair.

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 The pilgrim can cut his fingernails and wear his ordinary clothes. He can do what was forbidden at Hajj but not approaching his wife. By the way, those rituals are performed according to the affordability of the pilgrim. I mean not necessarily according to that order.

Going to Mecca for (Ifadah Tawaf). After that, the pilgrim can hunt and he can sleep with his wife. It is important to come back to Mena to sleep on the eleventh, the twelfth, and the thirteenth of Thulhijjah. Some pilgrims are hasty. They can sleep two days (11^th, 12^th). There is no harm or sin about it.

There are some rituals carried out during the days of sunrise in Mena. The second day of Eid and the first day of the sunrise (Ayam attashreeg). Throwing of the three Jamarat in the afternoon, the Hajji or the pilgrim starts with the small Jamarah throwing seven stones saying, (Allahu akbar) each time he throws and then he or she finds a place to make duaa, supplication to Allah.

Then the middle Jamara and the same deed is repeated there. The last one was the big Jamara and the pilgrim performs the same act there.

On the twelfth day, the pilgrim does the same performance of the eleventh day. If he/she is in a hurry, he/she can leave Mena before sunset to Mecca to perform (Wadaa Tawaf) or goodbye Tawaf. This is the last performance for the pilgrim to do and then the pilgrim can go back to his place.