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The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah (MHU) (Arabic: وزارة الحج والعمرة) is a government ministry in Saudi Arabia which is responsible for supervising the facilitation of essential services to the pilgrims arriving in the country for Hajj and Umrah purposes, [1] [2] including overseeing their secure transportation and movement to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 January 2025. Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca "Haj" redirects here. For other uses, see Hajj (disambiguation) and Haj (disambiguation). Hajj حَجّ Pilgrims at the Al-Masjid Al-Haram Mosque in Mecca on Hajj in 2010 Status Active Genre Religious pilgrimage Begins 8th day of Dhu al-Hijja Ends 12th or 13th ...
The Umrah (Arabic: عُمْرَة, lit. 'to visit a populated place') is an Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca , the holiest city for Muslims , located in the Hejazi region of Saudi Arabia . It can be undertaken at any time of the year, in contrast to the Ḥajj ( / h æ dʒ / ; [ 1 ] " pilgrimage "), which has specific dates according to the Islamic ...
[6] [7] "We direct the Central government to progressively reduce the amount of subsidy so as to completely eliminate it within a period of 10 years from today," said a bench of Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana P Desai. [8] "The subsidy money may be more profitably used for uplift of the community in education and other indices of social ...
The COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing global pandemic caused by coronavirus disease 2019. [7] The outbreak of the virus was first noted in Wuhan, China in early December 2019. [8] On 30 January 2020, COVID-19 was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization, and was declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020.
Muslim pilgrims surrounding the Ka'aba in Mecca. The Talbiyah (Arabic: ٱلتَّلبِيَة, at-Talbiyah) is a Muslim prayer invoked by the pilgrims as a conviction that they intend to perform the Hajj only for the glory of Allah.
Umm Salama's birth name was Hind. [7] [8] Her father was Abu Umayya ibn Al-Mughira ibn Abdullah ibn Umar ibn Makhzum ibn Yaqazah also known as Suhayl or Zad ar-Rakib. [9] He was an elite member of the Quraysh tribe, known for his great generosity, especially to travelers. [10]
The system would, however, maintain compatibility with the PDP-11, by operating in a second mode that sent its 16-bit words into the 32-bit internals, while mapping the PDP-11's 16-bit memory space into the larger virtual 32-bit space. [47] The result was the VAX architecture, where VAX stands for Virtual Address eXtension (from 16 to 32 bits).