A British Muslim group has urged the government to put pressure on its Saudi allies to protect Shia pilgrims during the Hajj. The Islamic Human Rights Commission says those Muslims who do not follow the Saudi state’s version of Islam are often harrassed in Mecca. Roshan Muhammed Salih in London has more on this story.
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Millions of people have been arriving in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca for the Muslim Pilgrimage known as the Hajj. The annual ritual marks a high-point in the religious lives of many Muslims. But for one US convert who is making the trip for the first time, it is just the next logical step in a journey of faith already well underway. Al Jazeera’s Sebastian Walker brings us this story from Falls Church, in the state of Virginia.
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The Well of Zamzam (or the Zamzam Well, or just Zamzam; Arabic: ?????) is a well located within the Masjid al Haram in Mecca, 20 meters east of the Kaaba, the holiest place in Islam. A miraculously-generated source of water from Allah (God), which began thousands of years ago when Ibrahim’s infant son Ishmael was thirsty and kept crying for water and was kicking at the ground when water gushed out. Millions of pilgrims visit the Well each year while performing the Hajj or Umrah pilgrimages, in order to drink its water. By Saudi law, the water cannot be sold outside of the kingdom, but because of strong demand there is a thriving market in fake Zamzam water in other countries.
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This video is in Urdu. REPORT BY ITESHAM KHAN in Delhi. One of the biggest complaints about the new requirements is that many of the pilgrims tend to be poor, and many hail from the interior of India, are not very educated and know very little about the haj rules. many may not even be able to afford the passports, as many have never traveled outside of india in thier lives and probably never will again after performing haj.
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After the Jamarat, back to Hotel.
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At least three million Muslim pilgrims are in Saudi Arabia, completing their final days of