Annual hajj; 3 million Muslims are ready.

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The fifth pillar of Islam is “ elhajj” which means a Muslim has to visit the holy place “Mecca” at least once in his life if he got the financial means, this pillar is respected mainly each year because the number of hajji is increasing year after year, despite the administrative difficulties Muslims face in addition to the dangerous incidents that occur every year when there is jostling between the hajji, sometimes leading to the death of thousands people. This year about 3 million persons in all over the world joined the holy place where the prophet Mohamed (May peace and prayers be upon him) was born.

 

The aim of that Islam pillar is to clean its sins in the rites of Islam, a once in a lifetime opportunity that allow Muslims to get closer to their god and prophet. This time hajj comes in a context of deep crisis in the Islamic world; the blood shed in Iraq as well as the daily slauthering in Palestinian territories, in addition to the split between the Palestinian factions, and lately the war in Somalia, besides the tensions between the two Islamic main sects of Islam Sunni and Shiite is hugely increasing.

 The Saudi Arabian interior minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz said no sectarian tensions from any party during the hajj would be allowed during the hajj season.

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