The journey of the pilgrim starts from Mecca. Thulhijjah 8th , the day of irrigation, the pilgrim comes to Mecca and stays the night. At the dawn of Thulhijjah 9th, he moves to mount Arafa. Making supplication and duaa, combining the prayers of duhur and assar in advance and continuing to ask The Almighty what he wishes or wants. Before sunset, he must move from mount Arafa to Muzdalifa, another rite area where he combines Ishaa and Magrib prayers together and continues his supplication. Then he collects stones to be thrown at Satan later.
Thulhijjah 10th at dawn, he continues his journey to Mena where he performs the rest of the rites. This is the day of Eid Aladha, or the big feast. The pilgrim can slaughter his sacrifice and cut or shorten his hair. He can also go to throw the stones at Satan. After this, he can take off his Ihram, but he is not allowed to touch his wife (have sexual intercourse) or go hunting. After Ifadah Tawaf, the hajji can lie with his woman and go hunting if he wishes. On the third day at Mena, the pilgrim can make the goodbye Tawaf and go home. Hasty pilgrims can stay two days in Mena and perform the goodbye Tawaf and go back home. Hajj is over. The pilgrim returns from his hajj clean with no sins at all.
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Thanks for the information.
Unfortunately, Iranians are not allowed to participate in Hajj this year. This is because of last year that many of our pilgrims were killed in Menna disaster, which was due to the Saudi's incapability to manage the crowd as it had to. They closed a road that had to be open for the crowd and cause that disaster. I really hope that one day we see a manager for Hajj who really deserve this place. I hope that every Muslims who are attending Hajj can safely return to their homes without any trouble. And finally, may those who were cruelly put to death in the last year's disaster in Menna rest in peace.
Thanks for your post.
@Risty
Throwing stones at satan is symbolized how Allah punishes the disobeyers and deceivers, besides it is also reminds how Hazrat Ismael pbuh threw stones at the satan when he tried to mosguide him when his father was carrying him to sacrifice. Hazrat Ismael asked his father Hazrat Ibrahim pbuh. He told him to throw stone at him with name of Allah. The satan turned into stone.
Sarah I told you this because you asked for it other wise we Muslims do not seek for the reasoning in Allah's commandments. We just follow them.
Thank you for this informative post, Sir Dara. It was interesting to learn about Hajj.
Merci beaucup mon ami Kader. What a comment? Your words bring brotherhood and togetherness to all of us. Thanks for your nice briefing about the prophets and the fasting of Arafa day, thanks!
Thank you so much Dara for this clarifications. I think the Haj is the greatest rites at the Muslims. So, even us (they didn’t do the Haj), we must fasting a day of Arafa and don't cut the nails and Hair because this is from the Sunnah. I think my dear Dara, we are fortunate in this religion, which is Islam. The Islam collect all the famous religions, we have many messengers like Aissa, Moussa, Ayoub, ....Mohamad. For me, I always ask Allah to guide all and the big proof is The Haj, because in the Haj, we see the different ethnically. Your Brother Kader
Sarah, ap deko ke sei the pilgrim moves from Mecca to the different rites of hajj. click on that link.
http://www.myenglishclub.com/photo/hajj-map?context=user
melu ela unaro Sarah? Forgive my Telugu. pooshne ka shukriya! Thanks for your question. Throwing stones at Satan is one of the rites of hajj. It shows the symbol of enmity to Shaitan. It was a long story between Prophet Abraham (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) when he was going to slaughter his son Ismail. Satan came to him to advise him not to do so, but Abraham took seven stones and threw them at Satan. Satan cried and melt away. Throwing stones (jamarat) is a symbol of our enmity to Satan. We do not follow him, but we follow our prophet and his way.
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