Arafat Day, also known as the Day of Arafah, falls on the 9th day of the Islamic month of Dhul Hijjah. Eid al Adha directly follows. Here's our guide.

embellished by 120 kilo gold and hundred kilo silver-plated thread and motifs illustrating verses from the Holy Qur'an. The covering cloth of the Kaaba, known as Kiswa, is changed on 9th Zilhaj every ...

AFP/Mount Arafat, Saudi Arabia Published on June 15 ... Clad in white, worshippers began arriving at dawn for the most gruelling day of the annual rites, ascending the rocky, 70-metre hill ...

New Delhi [India], June 15 (ANI): Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Suhel Ajaz Khan on Saturday said that the Indian pilgrims have gathered at Mount Arafat for Haj, the most crucial day of Haj.

One of the five pillars of Islam is that each believer is called, at least once in their lives, to make the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage that starts and ends in the holy city of Mecca located in ...

Later, the Hujjaj offered Zohar and Asr prayers together. They will stay at Arafat spending the whole day in suplication praying for welfare of Ummah. After Azaan-e-Maghrib, they will leave for ...

Cuomo, who was then Bill Clinton’s secretary for Housing and Urban Development, sat down with Arafat on June 23, 2000, as part of a three-day trip to Israel. He also met with then-Israeli Prime ...

He said that Muslims should exhibit best of the manners as only those who will have good manners will be close to the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) on the day of judgment. The Hujjaj offered Juma ...

The nickname Yasir or Yasser means “easy-going” in Arabic. Arafat acquired it as a teenager. Arafat’s alias, Abu Ammar, was adopted in the mid 1960s. 1950s – After graduating from college ...

Around three million pilgrims from across the globe are converging at Mount Arafat, the Jabal ar-Rahmah on the second day of the pilgrimage to perform the major Hajj ritual. Radio Pakistan’s ...