The city of Toronto has many distinctions; the CN Tower, Skydome – the crack smoking escapades of its mayor – just to name few. One distinction,...
Increasingly as of late, weโve heard horror stories from Muslims around the US and Canada, who have poured their hard-earned savings into Hajj packages only to...
Some people may be heading out for the spiritual journey of a lifetime soon, so I just wanted to take a moment and give a few...
There are so many like myself could not go to Hajj this year. But even when we are physically far away from Makkah, our hearts with...
As the month of October has started, you might have realized that the last month of the Islamic calendar is also beginning. ย This month is Dhul-Hijjah,...
Beginning of theย Ashur-ul-Hajj Shawwal is the first of the three months named asย “Ashhur al-Hajj”ย (i.e. the months of Hajj). Although the major acts of Hajj are normally...
We watched an episode ofย Anthony Bourdain: No Reservationsย on โฤชd day, it was playing in the background at my in-laws’ place, after the presents had been opened...
There is no place on Earth as venerated, as central or as holy to as many people as Makkah. By any objective standard, this valley in...
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Al Jazeera English correspondent Jamal Elshayyal reports from this year’s Hajj on a group of Rohingya Muslims making the pilgrimage. One pilgrim interviewed said: โThe problem...
