“The Biggest Pillar of Hajj.” The Mount of Mercy is coloured white

Saudi Arabia – At daybreak right now, Saturday, the pilgrims headed to Mash’ar Arafat to carry out the best pillar of Hajj (standing on Mount Arafat), following the pilgrims’ processions had accomplished arriving at Mina’s Mhair to spend the Day of Tarwiyah.

The friends of the Most Merciful spent the Day of Tarwiyah in Mina and spent the night time there, and with the daybreak of the day, the pilgrims who got here from varied nations of the world went to carry out the best pillar of Hajj, which is to face on Mount Arafat, sporting their white robes, in one of many largest human gatherings, then depart following sundown to Muzdalifah. To spend the night time there, then they return to Mina on the morning of the tenth day to stone Jamarat al-Aqaba and sacrifice, then shave and minimize their hair, and head to Mecca to carry out the Tawaf al-Ifadah.

Pilgrims spend the three days of Tashreeq in Mina (11, 12, and 13 of Dhu al-Hijjah) to throw the three Jamarat, beginning with the minor Jamarat of Aqaba, then the center, then the main. Pilgrims in a rush can shorten it to only two days, following which they head to Mecca to carry out the farewell circumambulation.

The pilgrims’ actions had been characterised by ease, accompanied by 1000’s of safety personnel from varied sectors, who adopted their course by means of the roads, tunnels and bridges ready by the Saudi authorities and by the Holy Websites prepare.

The Civil Protection Forces in Arafa raised their readiness and introduced “the readiness of all their human and mechanical capabilities to protect the protection of the pilgrims of the Holy Home of God on the ninth of Dhu al-Hijjah, in order that the preparations can accommodate all potential dangers by deploying preventive survey groups to comply with up on all development and electrical work within the tents and examine the exits and corridors, along with figuring out Preventive supervision websites cowl all areas of Mash’ar Arafa, and supply the most recent mechanisms and tools to watch and comply with up on the motion of pilgrims.”

The readiness of the Civil Protection Forces included “coping with the crowds of tens of millions in Arafa by learning, analyzing, and realizing all potential dangers, figuring out the best strategy to cope with them, and directing all potential incidents.”

For its half, the Ministry of Well being warned pilgrims of “the risks of publicity to excessive temperatures on surfaces within the Holy Websites, which attain excessive temperatures.”

The Ministry warned pilgrims that “publicity to daylight for lengthy intervals poses an important hazard to their well being,” noting that “this 12 months’s Hajj season 1445 AH comes with excessive temperatures in Mecca, which is the best issue that pilgrims face.”

Earlier, Saudi media reported that greater than 1.5 million pilgrims got here from all around the world in and round Mecca to carry out Hajj, and the Saudi authorities anticipated the variety of pilgrims to exceed two million this 12 months.

Supply: “Okaz”