Tag: pilgrimage

04 February 2022

Turkey’s Diyanet Says Virtual Visit to Ka’aba Not A Real Hajj

According to the Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), visiting the Ka’aba can be performed on the metaverse, but it will not be considered as a “real hajj”.

23 August 2018

Nozibele Phylis Mali is known Fatima

It is an ordinary working day in 1995. Fatima, then known as Nozibele Phylis Mali, is busy working for her employer, Mehrunisa Dawood, fondly known as Mehrun Bhana, in Rylands Estate.

She is busy sweeping a room from which she can clearly hear Mehrun Bhana’s son, Shafeeq, in the lounge, revising the Quranic chapters he has memorized. Fatima is listening, spellbound. This is strange, interesting, she thinks, although she does not understand a word.

22 March 2018

Historic Hajj Exhibition Concludes in Emirates

“I liked the beautiful display of various artefacts by several artists and the unique items that were used by Muslims in the journey many decades ago,” Alley Mellissa, a tourist from Germany, said.

10 November 2017

World’s Biggest Pilgrimage Now Underway, And Why Many People Have Never Heard of it!

In fact, Arbaeen should be listed in the Guinness Book of World Records in several categories:
biggest annual gathering, longest continuous dining table…

17 March 2017

Simon Collis, the UK envoy to Riyadh, converted to Islam

The conversion of Simon Collis, the UK envoy to Riyadh, became public after pictures posted on Twitter showed him and his wife Huda wearing the traditional white garments of Muslim pilgrims in front of the British consulate in Mecca.