• It is considered to be the largest gathering of humanity in any one time or place. It is the culminating spiritual experience for a Muslim, as well as a logistical challenge for the government of Saudi Arabia.
• Hajj in yesteryears was literally the journey of a lifetime (People used to spend an entire lifetime saving up the money to perform Hajj).
• The trip to Makkah used to be a grueling experience. Usually took months and (in some cases) even years on horseback or on foot, through mountain terrain and desert. Mobs of thugs often attacked the routes to Makkah to steal money from the pilgrims.
"And proclaim the Pilgrimage among men. They will come to thee on foot and (mounted) on every kind of camel, lean on account of journeys through deep and distant mountain highways..." (Al Quran 22:27)
• As per the Saudi Press Agency, till the 1950s, the number of Hajj pilgrims was recorded to be less than 100,000. This figure doubled by 1955, and in the year 1972 it touched the figure of 645,000
pilgrims.
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