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In addition to Hajj, the other important acts are:. Mecca is the place where the Islamic religion started. It is where the Prophet Muhammad was born and received the first revelations from Allah Allah is the Arabic word for God that went on to become the Koran - the holy book read by Muslims. The city is home to the Ka'bah, built by prophet Abraham and his son prophet Ishmael. Muslims pray in the direction of this sacred building, which is found within the Great Mosque of Mecca.
The Ka'bah is the holiest site in Islam and symbolises the oneness of God. Muslims carry out a number of important rituals while they are on the pilgrimage. Men are required to wear two sheets of white cloth, which are worn in a specific way. Women wear traditional clothing and must cover their head, but not their face. These clothes symbolise the equality of all Muslims before Allah. During the first stage of Hajj, Muslims walk around the Ka'bah in an anti-clockwise direction seven times.
This is known as Tawaf and is done to show that all Muslims are equal. The next ritual requires Muslims to run between two hills, Safa and Marwah, seven times. Muslims believe that the prophet Abraham's wife Hagar did this when she was in search of water for her infant son Ishmael. Ishmael is believed to have struck his foot on the ground and this produced a spring of water known as Zamzam.
It is common for those on the pilgrimage to take water from Zamzam with them when they go back home. Pilgrims travel to the plain of Arafat. Participants touch or kiss the stone to end the ceremony around the Kaaba. People who have completed the pilgrimage may add the phrase al-Hajj or hajji pilgrim to their names.
April - A fire in Mina, Saudi Arabia, tears through a sprawling, overcrowded tent city, trapping and killing more than pilgrims and injuring 1, February 1, - A stampede kills Muslim pilgrims and injures more at a stone-throwing ritual which has been the source of deadly trampling in the past. January 5, - A small hotel in Mecca collapses, killing at least 76 people.
The hotel, Luluat Alkheir, is occupied by Asian pilgrims when it collapses. January 12, - A stampede kills at least people. The stampede, like others in the past, happens during the stone-throwing ritual in which the pilgrims stone a symbolic devil. September 11, - Days before the start of the Hajj, people are killed when a powerful storm topples a construction crane, sending it crashing through the roof of the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
At least others are injured, according to the nation's civil defense authorities. The Grand Mosque is the largest in the world and surrounds the Kaaba. September 24, - During the annual Hajj pilgrimage, a stampede kills more than people and injures nearly others, according to state media. The incident occurs during the ritual known as "stoning the devil" in the tent city of Mina. May 30, - Iran bars its pilgrims from traveling to Mecca to take part in the Hajj pilgrimage after accusing Saudi Arabia of failing to guarantee the safety of its citizens.
June 22, - A statement from Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Hajj and Umrah states that as Covid cases continue to grow globally, and because of the risks of coronavirus spreading in crowded spaces and from other countries, the Hajj will "take place this year with a limited number of pilgrims from all nationalities residing in Saudi Arabia only, who are willing to perform Hajj.
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