And you are reading this right now, you are obligated to pick me up some Zam zam water!
Look for a Fayyad Fatwa, official unofficially binding decree, to follow shortly.
More than 1.5 million join pilgrimage to Mecca
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AFP) - By Wednesday, 1,467,515 people from around the world had arrived in the desert kingdom, the official SPA news agency quoted the hajj central commission as saying.
Nearly 2.4 million people flocked to Saudi Arabia to perform the last hajj, including more than 1.6 million from outside the kingdom.
The annual pilgrimage, which also attracts hundreds of thousands of Saudi faithful as well as foreigners resident in the kingdom, begins on Monday, the eighth day of the month of Dhi al-Hajja under the lunar calendar.
Saudi Arabia has announced that the high point of the hajj, when pilgrims converge on Mount Arafat near Mecca, would take place on Tuesday, and that Eid al-Adha, the Muslim Feast of the Sacrifice marking the end of the pilgrimage, would be celebrated the next day.
Muslims slaughter sacrificial lambs to mark the feast of Eid al-Adha.
All Muslims are required to make the hajj to Mecca, in western Saudi Arabia, at least once in their lifetime if they have the means to do so.
3 comments:
Why is this an article on kabobfest?
Because I am requesting that Hajjis bring me back some spiritual water from their most spiritually uplifting human-bound experience.
In case you are unaware, KABOBfest is no stranger to endorsements of tasty treats. Check out this piece by Will about the perplexing charm of "Oriental Mix Snack Mix." (http://www.kabobfest.com/2007/10/official-kabobdorsement-oriental-mix.html)
And, in case you have yet to try Zam zam, you are really missing out-hands down, head and shoulders above my favorites of Jana and Volvic
Lol. You people who run the site and write for it are not allowed to define what Kabobfest is and what it isn't. That is solely the discretion of us, the reading public.
And I'll take some ZamZam too.
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