{"id":6920,"date":"2020-07-30T08:02:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T08:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=6920"},"modified":"2020-07-30T08:02:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T08:02:46","slug":"saudi-arabia-hajj-pilgrims-to-carry-out-downsized-pilgrimage-amid-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/30\/saudi-arabia-hajj-pilgrims-to-carry-out-downsized-pilgrimage-amid-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia: Hajj pilgrims to carry out downsized pilgrimage amid COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around 1000 Muslims will perform Hajj in Saudi Arabia on Thursday as a part of downsized pilgrimage due to Covid-19 pandemic. About 30% of these pilgrims are Saudi citizens while the remaining 70% are foreign nationals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commencing the five-day pilgrimage, Hajj pilgrims converged at Mina on Wednesday. After offering pre-dawn prayers, they will make way to the plains of Arafat on Thursday for the main ritual of Hajj -reciting prayers. They will spend the day there praying and asking for God\u2019s forgiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pilgrims will attend the Khutba-e-Hajj or Hajj Sermon at Nimra mosque and offer mid-day and afternoon prayers before leaving for Muzdalifah on thursday evening. On friday morning, the pilgrims will return to Mina for the ritual of animal sacrifice and symbolic stoning of the devil. Around 2.5 million pilgrims including record of two lakh from India performed Hajj back in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 1000 Muslims will perform Hajj in Saudi Arabia on Thursday as a part of downsized pilgrimage due to Covid-19 pandemic. About 30% of these pilgrims&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6920","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}