More than 1.8 million visitors had arrived by midday ... it at least once in their lives if they can afford to. Mecca, closed to non-Muslims, is home to the Kaaba - a cube structure draped in ...

The 1 million foreign and domestic pilgrims participating are still far fewer than the 2.5 million Muslims who traveled to Mecca in 2019 for the pilgrimage, typically one of the world’s largest ...

Legacy of a Prophet travels in the footsteps of the prophet to the Arabian desert and the holy city of Mecca where much of Muhammad's story unfolded. "There are six to seven million Muslims here ...

Actor and producer Anwar Hadid, younger brother of supermodels Bella and Gigi, posted photos on Instagram recently of him performing Umrah, the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca ... has 7.1 million ...

Get exclusive content with Gulf News WhatsApp channel He explained at a ceremony in Mecca that the sermons ... Fridays of Ramadan reached around 1 billion Muslims the world over via the Haramain ...

Saudi Arabia has achieved self-efficiency in dates with an output estimated at 1.5 million tonnes ... at the Grand Mosque, Islam’s holiest site, in the Saudi city of Mecca.

While more than two billion Muslims endure a month of fasting, the international food consumption rate exceeds the typical ...

BIOLA AZEEZ, in this piece, speaks with Muslim clerics on the practice of sponsoring poor people for Hajj.Hajj in Islam is the pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca and Madinah in Saudi Arabia, which ...

The survey also indicated that more than 45% of U.S. Muslims were giving zakat during the time of Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca ... 1.8 billion in zakat in 2021. Nearly 3.5 million ...

It's a holy time filled with worship for the 1. ... of Islam's five pillars. The other pillars are declaration of faith, daily prayer, charity, as well as making the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.

Iranian officials have denied media reports about the imminent delivery of new Russian Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets to Iran.