‘The Hajj just isn’t Mecca’: Why prayers at Mount Arafat are the non secular peak of Islamic pilgrimage
ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia — They got here at nighttime of evening, within the hundreds, to clamber up the rocky hill referred to as Mount Arafat. The mound southeast of Mecca is little recognized exterior Islam. For non-Muslims, the circling of the Kaaba — the black, cube-shaped construction within the holy metropolis — is essentially the … Read more