Tuesday, 4 January 2011

Annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia
The Hajj  is the yearly pilgrimage to Paradise, Saudi Arabic. It is one of the biggest yearly pilgrimages on the globe, and is the fifth main of Islam, a spiritual work that must be performed at least once in their life-time by every able-bodied Islamic who can manage to do so. The Hajj is a display of the solidarity of the Islamic individuals, and their distribution to God (Allah in the Persia language). The pilgrimage happens from the 8th to Twelfth day of Dhu al-Hijjah, the Twelfth and last 1 month of the Islamic schedule. Because the Islamic schedule is a lunar schedule, 11 times reduced than the Gregorian schedule used in the West, the Gregorian time frame of the Hajj changes from season to season. Ihram is the name given to the unique condition in which Muslims stay while on the pilgrimage.

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