Muzdalifah
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مُزْدَلِفَة | |
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Muzdalifah (
Arabic: مُزْدَلِفَة) is an open and level area near Mecca in the Hejazi region of Saudi Arabia that is associated with the Ḥajj ("Pilgrimage").[1][2][3][4] It lies just southeast of Mina, on the route between Mina and Arafat
.
Pilgrimage
The stay at Muzdalifah is preceded by a day at
Arabic: رَمِي ٱلْجَمَرَات, romanized: Ramī al-Jamarāt, lit. 'Stoning of the Place of Pebbles').[5][6][7]
The Sacred Monument
The Sacred Grove | |
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Al-Mashʿar Al-Ḥarām (ٱلْمَشْعَر ٱلْحَرَام) | |
Religion | |
Affiliation | Islam |
Province | Makkah |
Region | Hejaz |
Rite | Hajj |
Status | Active |
Location | |
Location | Muzdalifah |
Administration | Saudi government |
Geographic coordinates | 21°23′10″N 39°54′44″E / 21.38611°N 39.91222°E |
Architecture | |
Type | Mosque |
Style | Islamic |
Minaret(s) | 2 |
The open-roofed
See also
- Holiest sites in Islam
- Haram (site)
- List of mosques that are mentioned by name in the Quran
- Sarat Mountains
References
- ^ ISBN 0-8739-5382-7.
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)
- ^ ISBN 0-8674-6939-0.
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.
- ^ ISBN 0-0286-5743-8.
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
- ^ ISBN 0-8566-4681-4.
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[.]
- ^ Burton, Richard Francis (1857). Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah. p. 226.
The word jamrah is applied to the place of stoning, as well as to the stones.
- ISBN 978-9-6943-2097-7.
1204. Jamrah originally means a pebble. It is applied to the heap of stones or a pillar.
- ISBN 978-81-206-0672-2.
Literally "gravel, or small pebbles." The three pillars [...] placed against a rough wall of stones [...]
- ^ Quran 2:129 (Translated by Yusuf Ali)