Muzdalifa

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Coordinates: 21 ° 23 ′ 33 ″  N , 39 ° 56 ′ 16 ″  E

Pilgrims in Muzdalifa, 2006

The Muzdalifa ( Arabic مزدلفة, DMG Muzdalifa ) is an at Mecca preferred level in Saudi Arabia , in which Muslims during the Hajj on the ninth day of the month pilgrim Dho l-Hijjah dwell ( Wuquf ). The plain is also known as al-Maschʿar al-harām and as Jamʿ (assembly).

There is a mosque on the level.

In the Muzdalifa, according to the regulations, the believers spend the night in the open air; Women, children and physically weak men can move on to Mina following the hadiths after midnight ; for all other believers it is essential to remain in Muzdalifa until the Fajr prayer. Evening prayers are held in the Muzdalifa; Pilgrims collect the pebbles in the valley for the ritual of the following day of Hajj, when they throw seven stones each on the pillars of the Jamarat Bridge in Mina to symbolically stone the devil . The pilgrims set out the next morning when the first rays of the sun shine over Mount Thabīr . This gave rise to the Arabic proverb "Let the sun rise, O Thabīr, so that we may hurry on!" In the plain there is a hill, the Quzah . It was already considered a holy place in pre-Islamic times and bears the name of an ancient Arabic thunderstorm god . Quzah was the chief god of the Edomites under the name Qaus .

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  2. ^ Journal of the German Oriental Society , Volume 18, Halle, Leipzig 1864, p. 557 (digitized version)
  3. ↑ Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz : Hajj, Umrah & Ziyarah . Darussalam Publishers, 1996.
  4. ↑ Björn Widstock, Lisa Rebstock: The five pillars of Islam . Grin Verlag, Norderstedt 2007, p. 12 (digitized version)
  5. ^ Ferdinand Wüstenfeld (ed.): History of the city of Mecca . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1861, p. 339 (digitized version)
  6. ↑ Werner Daum: Urseminitische Religion . Kohlhammer Verlag 1985, p. 119, p. 121 (digitized version)
  7. ↑ Petra Oelschlaeger: Thunderstorm! Norderstedt 2008, p. 76 (digitized version)