Hajj : The journey that all Muslims must make in their lifetime

Hajj is considering world largest The Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam. Muslim who can afford to do so perform at least one time in his life. Hajj is considers world largest gathering Muslims comes allover the word in holy city of Makah to perform Hajj. Hajj is observes in Islamic month of Dilhajj starts from 08 Dilhajj and ends on 12 Dilhajj druing five day of Hajj pilgrims performs rituals of Hajj.

Hajj is important pillar of Islam and Muslims believe that after performing Hajj with great care Allah will forgives all their sins and they start new era of life.

Beautiful view of holy Haram during Hajj. Thousands of people are performing Tawaf.

People are going Mina and near is Khief Mosque visible in picture. First day of Hajj pilgrims are going to Mina. Pilgrims will spent day and night in Mina and after Fajr prayer pilgrims will go to Arafat which is compulsory part of Hajj. Pilgirims spend all day in Mina in remembrance of Allah, recitation of Holy Quran and ask forgiveness of their sins from Allah Almighty.

Mina is also called city of tents. Thousands of tents are available for pilgrims to stay in spend whole day to remember Allah and reciting of holy Quran. Saudi government is providing excellent facilities to pilgrims all tents are fire proof and air conditioned even in very hot season pilgrims feel home like comfort every where. Special guides and maps are available every where to find tents and ways.

People are sitting in Nimra mosque for listening hajj sermon which is very important part of hajj.

Stay in Arafat is compulsory in Hajj. Pilgrims spent first day of Hajj in Mina and after fajr prayer all pilgrims set to Arafat some by foots some by buses and any other means. After mugreb in Arafat pilgrims leads to Mudalifah and spent whole night there.

Nimran mosque is very large mosque located in Arafat. Mosque is very famous in Islamic world. Thousands of pilgrims can accommodate in Nimra mosque. Hajj sermon also starts from Nimra mosque and mosque is open only in Hajj time remaining season they close the mosque. During Hajj mosque is very crowded and always full of thousands of people.

People are going to Muzdalafah after sitting in Arafat. You can see sea of people.

Now spent whole day in Arafat and Hajj sermon pilgrims are going to Muzdalifah where pilgrims offer Magreb and isha salah combined. Pilgrims will spent whole night in Mina and after fajr prayer they will go to Mina for Rami Jamarat.

Muzdalifah is large plain and cover with large mountains. Night in Muzdalifah is very important and people spend this night in remembrance of Allah and reciting of Holy Quran. Despite very larege area Muzdalifah is full during Hajj time and we can see thousands of people every where. Pilgrims also collected pebbles from Muzdalifah for stoning of devil.

Several beautiful mosques constructed in Mina you can see another beautiful mosque in Mina. AlKeif mosque is very fomous mosque which is located in Mina. Several other mosques are also part of Mina during hajj these mosques are very crowded and you can see large number of people in every mosque.

All mosque are beautiful constructed and have all facilities of modern days. To avoid scorching sun in day time pilgrims prefer to stay inside Mosques and remember Allah and recite Holy Quran. Large numbers of Toilets and water taps are available around these mosques due to rush some times you have to wait long hours for your term but every one is very discipline and no one want to use hard words and spoil is Hajj because Hajj in name of patience and help of each other also.

People are going to Mina for stoning Jamarat. After spent whole night in Muzdaliha pilgrims are going to Mina for Rami Jamart or stoning to devil. Jamart are three big walls on the 10th of dhil hajj pilgrims must strike the large Jamrah. Every pilgrim will throw seven pebble's towards devil. Jamart is usually very crowded place and despite presence of millions of people excellent facilities prevented any incident.

Government make special arrangements to avoid any incident at very crowded Jamarat. You can not take heavy luggage and wheel chairs at Jamarat, Now several ways are available for going to Jamarat all ways are separate and you have to follow your way to avoid rush and stampede situation. Usually Hajj authorities provide time table for each group and inform them about timing of their stoning at jamarat.

You can see beautiful view of newly constructed jamarat. After new construction of Jamart pilgrims find it very easy to perform rami.

Now several floors are available form different sides and at a same time thousands of pilgrims can come form different sides for performing rami. Every things is very planed and safe thousand of volunteers are available to guide people and no incident occurs from last several years.

People are going to Makkah after stoning to jamarat. Now after cutting their hairs and sacrifice animal Pilgrims will perform tawaf of Kaba and after tawaf they will return back to Mina and will spend two days in Mina.

Hajj is very crowded. 2.5 or 2.7 million people comes from all over the world to perform hajj. Every where you can see sea of people like this. Despite large number of people and different cast, color and culture all people spent these days with great patience and brotherhood which is great teaching of Islam. During Hajj every one want to help each other. Despite millions of people women, children and old people also preform hajj without any difficulty.

Large number of People, beautiful lighting, excellent arrangements, discipline, loyalist volunteers, medical teams and security personals some of them working in scorching son in long hours are beauty of Hajj.

you can see pilgrims are going to Makkah after performing Rami Jamarat.

After performing rami in forth and fifth day of hajj pilgrims are going to Makkah where they will offer Tawaf - Wida of last tawaf of hajj.