Hajj 2022: One Million Muslims Converge For First Climb Since Covid

 

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Muslims totally about a million converged on Friday on Mount Arafat to have the first climb since the covid-19 pandemic. Since 2020, Muslims could not execute the Hajj rites because there was Covid restrictions on international pilgrims placed by the Saudi Arabian authorities.

41,000 Nigerian pilgrims added their voices by joining their Muslim brothers and sisters worldwide for the Jabbal ar-Rahmah, Mount of Mercy, as part of the Hajj 2022 rites.

Usually, pilgrims expectedly spend most of today at the mount as part of the Hajj exercise that started on Thursday Pilgrims that they left Makkah to pass the night at Muna called Tent City.

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On the 9th, Dhul Hijjah, standing on Arafat, will hold, and that day is the 12th month of the Islamic calendar. Every pilgrim is obliged to perform this rite; however, pilgrims who did not perform the rite have rendered their Hajj invalid.

They must spend the day supplicating to Allah with the strong belief that Allah will automatically accept such prayers.

Mount Arafat is the mountain that the Prophet Muhammad stood to give his last sermon towards the end of this life when he proclaimed the equality of man and kindness to women etc.

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