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| Country |  Saudi Arabia |
| Region | Makkah |
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| • Regional Governor | Khalid bin Faisal Al Saud |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (A.S.T.) |
Muzdalifah (Arabic:مُزْدَلِفَة) is an open and level area nearMecca in theHejazi region ofSaudi Arabia that is associated with theḤajj ("Pilgrimage").[1][2][3][4] It lies just southeast ofMina, on the route between Mina andArafat.
In Pre-Islamic times the Hums being theQuraysh,Banu Kinanah,Banu Khuza'a andBanu 'Amir would camp at Muzdalifah and refuse to go toMount Arafat with the other Arabs.[5]
With the coming of Islam, the Hums were reprimanded for this behaviour and told to depart with the other Arabs in Quran 2:199.
The stay at Muzdalifah is preceded by a day atMount Arafat, consisting of glorifyingGod, repeating theduʿāʾ (Supplication), repentance to God, and asking him for forgiveness. At Arafat,Ẓuhr andʿAṣrprayers are performed in a combined and abbreviated form during the time ofZuhr. After sunset on the ninth day of theIslamic month ofDhūl-Ḥijjah,Muslim pilgrims travel to Muzdalifah, sometimes arriving at night because of over-crowding. After arriving at Muzdalifah, pilgrims pray theMaghrib andʿIshāʾ prayers jointly, whereas the Isha prayer is shortened to 2rakats. At Muzdalifah, pilgrims collect pebbles for theStoning of the Devil (Arabic:رَمِي ٱلْجَمَرَات,romanized: Ramī al-Jamarāt,lit. 'Stoning of the Place of Pebbles').[6][7][8]
The open-roofedmosque at Muzdalifah is known as "The Sacred Grove [ar]"[1][2][3][4] (Arabic:ٱلْمَشْعَر ٱلْحَرَام,romanized: Al-Mašʿar Al-Ḥarām) in theQuran (2:198).[9]
With thousands of Hajjis, most of them in motor vehicles, rushing headlong for Muzdalifah [...] There is special grace for praying at the roofless mosque in Muzdalifah called al-Mash'ar al-Haram (the Sacred Grove)
It was still dark when we arrived at Muzdalifah, four miles away. The Koran instructs us to spend the night at al-Mash'ar al-Haram. the Sacred Grove at Muzdalifah, as one of the conditions for the hajj.
The Qur'an admonishes: "When you hurry from Arafat, remember God at the Sacred Grove (al-mash' ar al-haram)," that is, at Muzdalifah (2:198). Today a mosque marks the place in Muzdalifah where pilgrims gather to perform the special saldt
Muzdalifah is an open plain sheltered by parched hills with sparse growth of thorn bushes. The pilgrims spend a night under the open sky of the roofless Mosque, the Sacred Grove, Al Mush'ar al-Haram. On the morning of the tenth, all depart[.]
The wordjamrah is applied to the place of stoning, as well as to the stones.
1204.Jamrah originally means a pebble. It is applied to the heap of stones or a pillar.
Literally "gravel, or small pebbles." The three pillars [...] placed against a rough wall of stones [...]
Every year, from the eighth to the twelfth day ofDhu al-Hijjah. | ||
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