Saudi Arabia will introduce free sleeping pods during this year’s Haj starting on Sunday. Between 18 and 24 modern hotel capsules will be offered to pilgrims to nap in for free in the coming six days, said the Haji and Mu’tamer’s Gift Charitable Association. These free nap pods — each[Read More…]
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Slashed Haj airfares to offset withdrawal of subisdy: Naqvi
New Delhi: The airfares for the Haj pilgrims this year have been slashed and a Saudi airline has been roped in to carry passengers, besides Air India, at the instance of the government — a move that would offset the impact of withdrawal of Haj subsidy, Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar[Read More…]
Mixed response among UP’s Muslim leaders on Haj subsidy revocation
Lucknow: The decision of the union government to scrap Haj subsidy and divert it to the welfare of Muslim women and education of girls has evoked a mixed response from Muslim leaders and clerics in Uttar Pradesh. While most of them have welcomed the move as “long-awaited”, some say that the[Read More…]
Everyone wants equality then let men, women carry pregnancy for 4.5 months each: Jamiat Ulama
Everyone wants equality then let men and women carry a pregnancy for 4.5 months each, said secretary of Jamiat Ulama on Tuesday. The remark has come after union minority affairs minister, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that the Haj Committee of India may consider the recommendation of letting women over 45[Read More…]
Muslim clerics term move to let women go on Haj without male ‘Un-Islamic’
The move of letting women aged more than 45 years to go to Haj without their close male kin if they are travelling in groups of four or more was termed “un-Islamic” by Sunni Barelvi clerics. The statement came after union minority affairs minister, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that the[Read More…]
Expansion of Haj quota has benefitted all states
Iran and Saudi Arabia’s war of words after Haj fallout
Saudi Arabia’s top cleric, Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh said in a public statement that Iran’s leaders were not Muslims. The comment drew a lot of rebuke from Tehran as the haj pilgrimage issue escalated. Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had earlier questioned the management of Mecca and Medina[Read More…]