{"id":12052,"date":"2018-08-19T17:26:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T17:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12052"},"modified":"2018-08-19T17:26:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T17:26:21","slug":"hajj-2018-an-in-depth-look-at-the-sacred-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12052","title":{"rendered":"Hajj 2018: An in-depth look at the sacred journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"46.6962843296\">\n<p>The first day of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/events\/hajj.html\">Hajj<\/a>\u00a0pilgrimage to Mecca in 2018 is Sunday, August 19.<\/p>\n<p><span>For Muslims, the Hajj re-enacts the actions of the Prophet Muhammad in his\u00a0&#8220;farewell pilgrimage&#8221; in 632 AD. It is\u00a0a central pillar of the Islamic faith meant to cleanse followers of sin and bring them closer to God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The pilgrimage is obligatory once in a lifetime for all Muslims with the means to afford it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We take a look at the step-by-step process of the six-day journey, which almost two million Muslims will take part in.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"imagecontainer item\" data-image-url=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2018\/8\/19\/746f462038894a4599996a30c6da4a10_6.jpg\">\n<table class=\"image\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2018\/8\/19\/746f462038894a4599996a30c6da4a10_6.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"caption\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"imagecontainer item\" data-image-url=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2018\/8\/19\/284fb5f0310a43ada08249c552ea8142_6.jpg\">\n<table class=\"image\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2018\/8\/19\/284fb5f0310a43ada08249c552ea8142_6.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"caption\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Below, we break down the nations where most pilgrims are journeying from.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"imagecontainer item\" data-image-url=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2018\/8\/19\/08528c07967945f0866ae9d42cad37f1_6.jpg\">\n<table class=\"image\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2018\/8\/19\/08528c07967945f0866ae9d42cad37f1_6.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"caption\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first day of the\u00a0Hajj\u00a0pilgrimage to Mecca in 2018 is Sunday, August 19. For Muslims, the Hajj re-enacts the actions of the Prophet Muhammad in his\u00a0&#8220;farewell pilgrimage&#8221; in 632 AD. It is\u00a0a central pillar of the Islamic faith meant to cleanse followers of sin and bring them closer to God. The pilgrimage is obligatory once&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}