This day is significant, commemorating the momentous event when Allah delivered Prophet Musa (Moses) and the Children of Israel from the tyranny of Fir‘awn (Pharaoh).
Proclaim to all people the duty of pilgrimage. They will come to you on foot and on every kind of fast mount. They will come from every far-away quarter. - Quran 22:27.
While it is veritable that about 1,300 pilgrims lost their lives during this year’s exercise and that the rigour of the hajj exercise and the harsh weather conditions of the period may have created
