reports that they also created time to visit many religious and historic sites, including mount Uhud, the oldest Islamic mosque and Qu’ranic exhibition centre in Madinah among others.
The climax of the pilgrimage was a day-long special prayer at the Plain of Mount Arafat, the place where Prophet Muhammad delivered his last sermon according to the Islamic tradition and the symbolic throwing of pebbles at the devil at Jamrat. The pilgrims then celebrated Eid-el-Kabir festival and slaughtered rams; a sacrifice emulating Prophet Abraham .DOWNLOAD THE PUNCH NEWS APP NOW ON
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