Hajj | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-26

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00:04:22 1 Etymology
00:05:29 2 History
00:08:28 3 Timing of Hajj
00:09:53 4 Rites
00:10:27 4.1 Ihram
00:12:27 4.2 First day of Hajj: 8th Dhu al-Hijjah
00:12:54 4.2.1 Tarwiyah Day
00:13:57 4.3 Tawaf and sa'ay
00:16:56 4.3.1 Mina
00:17:21 4.4 Second day: 9th Dhu al-Hijjah
00:17:40 4.4.1 Arafat
00:18:43 4.4.2 Muzdalifah
00:19:21 4.5 Third day: 10th Dhu al-Hijjah
00:19:38 4.5.1 Ramy al-Jamarat
00:20:30 4.5.2 Animal sacrifice
00:21:30 4.5.3 Hair removal
00:21:57 4.5.4 Tawaf Ziyarat
00:22:30 4.6 Fourth day: 11th Dhu al-Hijjah
00:22:58 4.7 Fifth day: 12th Dhu al-Hijjah
00:23:23 4.8 Last day at Mina: 13th Dhu al-Hijjah
00:23:47 4.8.1 Tawaf al-Wadaa
00:24:16 4.9 Journey to Medina
00:24:43 5 Arrangement and facilities
00:26:16 5.1 Visa requirements
00:26:33 6 Transportation
00:29:05 7 Modern crowd-control problems
00:31:38 8 Significance
00:35:17 9 Hajj and the Saudi economy
00:36:33 10 Number of pilgrims per year
00:37:27 11 Hadith
00:39:24 12 Differences between the Hajj and Umrah
00:40:17 13 Hajj Badal
00:45:18 14 Gallery
00:45:27 15 See also



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The Hajj (; Arabic: حَجّ‎ Ḥaǧǧ "pilgrimage") is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims, and a mandatory religious duty for Muslims that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by all adult Muslims who are physically and financially capable of undertaking the journey, and can support their family during their absence. Literally speaking, Hajj means heading to a place for the sake of visiting. In Islamic terminology, Hajj is a pilgrimage made to Kaaba, the ‘House of God’, in the sacred city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.  The rites of Hajj, which according to Islam go back to the time of Prophet Abraham who re-built Kaaba after it had been first built by Prophet Adam, are performed over five or six days, beginning on the eighth and ending on the thirteenth day of Dhu al-Hijjah, the last month of the Islamic calendar. It is one of the five pillars of Islam, alongside Shahadah, Salat, Zakat and Sawm. The Hajj is the second largest annual gathering of Muslims in the world, after the Arba'een Pilgrimage in Karbala, Iraq. The state of being physically and financially capable of performing the Hajj is called istita'ah, and a Muslim who fulfils this condition is called a mustati. The Hajj is a demonstration of the solidarity of the Muslim people, and their submission to God (Allah). The word Hajj means "to attend a journey", which connotes both the outward act of a journey and the inward act of intentions.The pilgrimage occurs from the 8th to 12th (or in some cases 13th) of Dhu al-Hijjah, the last month of the Islamic calendar. Because the Islamic calendar is lunar and the Islamic year is about eleven days shorter than the Gregorian year, the Gregorian date of Hajj changes from year to year. Ihram is the name given to the special spiritual state in which pilgrims wear two white sheets of seamless cloth and abstain from certain actions.The Hajj (sometimes spelt Hadj, Hadji or Haj also in English) is associated with the life of Islamic prophet Muhammad from the 7th century, but the ritual of pilgrimage to Mecca is considered by Muslims to stretch back thousands of years to the time of Abraham. During Hajj, pilgrims join processions of hundreds of thousands of people, who simultaneously converge on Mecca for the week of the Hajj, and perform a series of rituals: each person walks counter-clockwise seven times around the Kaaba (the cube-shaped building and the direction of prayer for the Muslims), runs back and forth between the hills of Safa and Marwah, drinks from the Zamzam Well, goes to the plains of Mount Arafat to stand in vigil, spends a night in the plain of Muzdalifa, and performs symbolic s ...