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Tue, 12/09/2008 - 12:18
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Kurban Ait sacred festival

Mecca, 9 December 2008, (Khabar) - Over 3 million pilgrims from all over the world are celebrating the feast of Kurban Ait (Eid ul-Adha)in the sacred capital for Muslims, the city of Mecca.
The army of pilgrims headed for the Arafat sacred valley and moved to the place called Musalifat in an organized march. The religious stayed there overnight to collect the stones necessary for performing the “Pelting Shaitan with stones” sacred rite. The first and the main part of this rite was carried out on the 8th of December in the morning followed by an early Namaz after which the rite of sacrifice was taken up straight away. According to some estimations, on the day of Kurban Ait, the sacred feast for Muslims, more than 10 million heads of cattle are sacrificed in Mecca, which were brought here form Australia, Sudan and Kuwait. This figure exceeds the number of pilgrims themselves by several times because almost every Muslim performing Hajj is obliged to sacrifice on behalf of their relatives to Manat. There are a lot of rites of performing Hajj and not every pilgrim including those from Kazakhstan, knows how to carry them out properly. That is why, the role of the spiritual mission should be noted as well, which runs under the leadership of representatives of the spiritual management of Kazakhstan and the religious issues committee of the ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan under the leadership of imams who explain, as part of their everyday sermons, how to carry out certain rituals. Thanks to this thorough work, the sacred Hajj performed by their fellow countrymen is generally conducted in a very organized

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