(New Delhi) Muslim Woman Donates ₹5 Lakh Meant for Hajj Pilgrimage
Hajj is the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, the holiest city of Muslims.
A Muslim woman from Jammu and Kashmir has donated her savings of Rs 5 lakh, meant for the Hajj pilgrimage, to the RSS-affiliated ‘Sewa Bharati’
Khalida Begum, 87, who saved Rs 5 lakh for Hajj, was forced to defer her plans for the pilgrimage due to the lockdown.
Meanwhile, since the lockdown was announced, Sewa Bharati volunteers across the country have been providing food and other essential items to the needy. The Sangh-affiliate’s volunteers were seen on Saturday managing crowd and providing food to them at the Anand Vihar bus terminal in Delhi.
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Iranian Prez Calls on Muslim World to Punish Saudi ‘Crimes’
[Tehran,Iran]Iranian Prez Calls on Muslims to Punish Saudi ‘Crimes
‘Iranians have been blocked from joining the hajj
President Hassan Rouhani today called on the Muslim world to unite and punish the Saudi government for its handling of the hajj pilgrimage and wider actions in the region.
As per the IRNA state news agency.,President told a cabinet meeting, “Regional countries and the world of Islam should take coordinated actions to resolve problems and punish the Saudi government,”
“If the existing problems with the Saudi government were merely the issue of the hajj…maybe it would have been possible to find a way to resolve it and put it in the right direction,”
Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia were already at rock bottom before the regional rivals started trading barbs this week ahead of the start of the annual hajj pilgrimage on Saturday.
Iranians have been blocked from joining the hajj for the first time in almost 30 years after talks on security and logistics fell apart in May.
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday accused Saudi Arabia of “murder” over the deaths of nearly 2,300 pilgrims, including hundreds of Iranians, in a stampede during last year’s pilgrimage.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif hit out at the “bigoted extremism” of the Saudi authorities, responding to claims by Saudi Arabia’s most senior cleric, Grand Mufti Abdulaziz al-Sheikh, that Iranians were “not Muslims
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