Stampede during a stoning ritual on the last day of the Hajj in Mena had caused at least 345 death.
The Hajj is one of the 5 pillars of Islam, every year millions of pilgrims from all around the world will flock to Mecca to fulfill pilgrimage. The final event of the Hajj is the symbolic stoning of the devil between noon and sunset in Mena.
It is hardly imaginable when millions of pilgrims rushed into a limited space, the event is destined for tragedy-prone. To make it even worse is the stubborness by some Muslims, ignoring everything that the Saudi government had adviced or trying to enforced.. by camping on the sidewalks, selling things, carrying baggages etc..
Time changed, everything should change. Why are people still following rituals that are thousand years old without questioning? Thousand years ago they might be only hundreds or just thousands of pilgrims at the Hajj, but now it’s in the number of millions, at the same space that is meant for thousands only. Surely there are some alternatives for this thing.. no?
My common sense tells me not to do things that are dangerous.. thus when people called the stampede of Hajj a tragedy, I call it a sacrifice.
January 14th, 2006 at 11:59 am
some has asked (berdoa) to Allah to die in Mecca and Allah has granted it …
January 14th, 2006 at 1:36 pm
Wah! True or not? This kind of words cannot play play arhh..
September 16th, 2006 at 7:54 pm
Why not convert into a muslim and experience whatever you have written about here yourself.
It’s easy to criticise on what you see and read, but its hard to prove without experience.
Allah knows best.
September 16th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
I believe that Allah knows best, but not all Muslims understand what’s the best.
Why convert to Muslim and experience the things that I can’t agree with?