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.
