{"id":38357,"date":"2023-06-28T05:03:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T05:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deshmediabd.com\/?p=38357"},"modified":"2023-06-28T05:03:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T05:03:21","slug":"crowds-stone-the-devil-in-final-hajj-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=38357","title":{"rendered":"Crowds ‘stone the devil’ in final hajj ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"

Massive crowds of robed Muslims gathered for the “stoning of the devil” ritual in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday as the biggest hajj pilgrimage since the pandemic draws to a close.<\/p>\n

From dawn, hundreds of thousands of worshippers began pelting pebbles at three concrete monoliths representing Satan, the last major ritual of an event held in severe summer heat.<\/p>\n

The pilgrims flocked to Mina, near Mecca, a day after enduring temperatures of 48 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit) as they prayed for hours on Mount Arafat.<\/p>\n

“I will not think of doing hajj again until it takes place in winter,” Farah, a 26-year-old Tunisian, said of the annual ritual which follows the lunar calendar and doesn’t always coincide with summer.
\n“My body is melting,” she said.<\/p>\n

More than 1.8 million pilgrims, most of them from abroad, joined the first hajj with unrestricted numbers since pre-Covid in 2019, when 2.5 million took part.<\/p>\n

The attendance figure, announced by Saudi officials on Tuesday, falls well short of their predictions of beating the 2019 record.\u09ac\u09bf\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf\u09a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Massive crowds of robed Muslims gathered for the “stoning of the devil” ritual in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday as the biggest hajj pilgrimage since the pandemic draws to a close. From dawn, hundreds of thousands of worshippers began pelting pebbles at three concrete monoliths representing Satan, the last major ritual of an event held in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,32,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4","category-32","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38359,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38357\/revisions\/38359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}