Increasingly as of late, we’ve 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...
British history classes do well to teach the World Wars, the abolition of slavery and the French Revolution(s). But one thing you may not have heard...
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. Â This month is Dhul-Hijjah,...
Alhamdulillah, the blessed Hajj season and Eid al-Adha are quickly approaching. Remember the story of Prophet Ibrahim ? His willingness to sacrifice something so dear to him—his...
Beginning of the Ashur-ul-Hajj Shawwal is the first of the three months named as “Ashhur al-Hajj” (i.e. the months of Hajj). Although the major acts of Hajj are normally...
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: “The problem...