Travellers to Mecca from among Lancashire’s 70,000 Muslims are being offered advice on how to stay safe during the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service are urging pilgrims to be aware of the dangers of cooking in tents and to be aware of fire escape plans. They also draw attention to the need…
A group of 204 Muslims, all from the region of Ceuta, are unable to travel to Mecca and participate in the Islamic obligation of Hajj due to traveling visas. The victims, which included many women, held a rally before the government and headquarters of the local government to express their frustrations. The affected Muslims have…
Muslims will have their own enclosure, and be allowed to be buried according to their own religious funerary rites. Over the summer, the Islamic community of albacete_a launched discussions with the city council of Albacete to think about the possibility of such a plan, and find a suitable place; Muslims will now have their own…
From now on, Muslims can be buried according to Islamic rite, facing Mecca, at the old Waldfriedhof in Darmstadt.
Salim Moumou Eljeddahoui is setting off on a 3,000 mile journey to Mecca, to perform the Muslim obligation to perform the religious pilgrimage. Following in the footsteps of his grandfather who walked from France to Mecca, Salim hopes to arrive in Saudi Arabia from his home in Nottingham before December 18th.
