ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia - Two million Muslims gathered at Saudi Arabia’s Mount Arafat on Saturday amid the summer heat and regional tensions for a vigil to atone for their sins and seek God’s forgiveness as part of the annual haj pilgrimage.
Other worshippers who had been praying in the nearby Mina area ascended in buses or on foot from before dawn. Some carried food, carpets for camping and fans to keep cool as temperatures rose toward 40 degrees Celsius . Taxi driver Khaled Maatouq said he was seeking an end to fighting in his native Libya: “I pray that God unites us.”
The pilgrims will spend the day on Mount Arafat. By sunset they will move to the rocky plain of Muzdalifa to gather pebbles to throw at stone columns symbolizing the devil at Jamarat on Sunday, which marks the first day of Eid al-Adha, or the feast of sacrifice.Saudi Arabia stakes its reputation on its guardianship of Islam’s holiest sites, Mecca and Medina, and organizing the pilgrimage.
Tensions are particularly high this year between Saudi Arabia, ruled by Sunni Muslims, and Shi’ite Muslim Iran.
Any and all trap door thought structures should be rejected out of hand.
Crowd of dangerous religious cranks living 1400 years in the past converge on hill
Would it not be better, not committing a “sin” in the first place...?🤷🏼♂️ Same goes for other religions..obviously...
This act itself is a sin... U can’t undone what Jesus had done. Be humble and accept Jesus. stop this unprofitable endeavor!
I atone with a shot of fine Congac!
Christians commenting disrespectfully, completely forgetting the only 'sinless' man was crucified just to give them a chance to atone for all THEIR sins.
Tough to atone for centuries of Muslim sins of intolerance, hatred and racism against non-Muslims and Jews.
Are they letting the paedos out of British prisons out to attend?
At first glance, thought it was a KKK convention.
LOL
It's going to be a really big gathering, can't be many who haven't sinned, perhaps they should separate them into degrees of sinners.
hypocrisy
Kurbani
I will as here 2019pilgrim
People commenting here be like hating muslims said they have lots sins but do not aware of their own sins lmao
Better stay there a long time. Many sins.
They have lots of sins to atone for.
There’s a lot to atone for.
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No they don't Stone to absolve their sins. They Stone the personification of Satan in a bid to stay away from sins
A day forgiveness and great blessing .. I pray to ALLAH for making all people in the world to be Muslim
There should be many more on that hill
domain name is for sale. Mount Arafat MountArafat
Glad to see this at last they released the real truth about the real sinners
Jews just only one brother of Israel!In the name of God they are taking life that belongs to God for the sake of worshiping golden calf!By knowing their actions you know who they worship!!! Pharisees who needs human energy to be important and humans turned to be a sheep of their
cast the stone who has no sin!!! Flash judgement vs judgement of God!Underestimate the power of God that keeps all hearts beating and needs no flash to stop that heart biting!!arguing that Jesus can’t be son of God 😂but God is so powerless that need them to kill the life of God!
May Allah grant their request, & not leave our invocations unanswered ( like Zachariya) wonder4ulworld
Only Jesus (fully God & fully man) was able to atone for sins. I pray they will trust Him. For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; 1Peter3:18NASB
😂😂😂
need a bigger mountain than that
Sin is within and they are searching on Arafat HajjMubarak
I wish you all happy Arafat, and may God almighty Allah forgive all our sins. Amen
I glanced at the picture and thought the KKK was back...
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Stupid and foolish
🙄
Partay at Club le haj. Call for bottle service and table reservations
IlhanMN RashidaTlaib go join your buddies out there and stay a while
Nice.All sinners at one place.
Stone aged backward rubbish.
To say ‘to atone for sin’ is not so accurate. All believers seek the forgiveness of Allah of their sins always but basically Arafat is an appointed date to answer the call of Allah to assemble all nations of mankind to worship and praise Him and sanctify His Might.
Their biggest sin is rejecting Christ and worshipping a false god, Allah!
And taking selfies which is not allowed
that mountain is not big enough to hold their sins .
In Christianity, a human being is born as a sinner. I do not know of any child who is a sinner. On Mount Arafat, people gather to atone for sins. The killings of the innocent in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, terrorism from Pakistan continue. No one born a sinner.
Who is MUSA Who is Jibriel 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
On this beautiful day more than 1400 years ago Allah perfected and chose Islam as a religion for mankind.
Muslims atoning for their own sins!! Then, the poor Muslims who cannot afford air tickets to Saudi, who atones for them?
Makes no sense. Do sins, visit a holy place and sins are atoned? And did God come down from skies and said this is the way sins are atoned? Has anyone ever seen a ‘God’ ? How do they know so much about ‘God’?
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