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SAHUC introduces mission workers to aspiring pilgrims for 2023 season

By Aneeqa du Plessis Masha Allah! (God has willed) The sounds of Labbayk Allah-humma Labbayk (Here I am, O Allah, here I am) reverberated through the Oaklands High School Hall as aspiring hujaaj (pilgrims) filled the venue with anticipation of the beckoning Hajj 2023/1444 AH season.This comes as the South African Hajj and Umrah Council (SAHUC) hosted its second Hajj roadshow in Cape Town earlier today. The attendees were addressed […]

7 May 2023

Tourism – Hajj and Umrah

Waiting at the gates of Jannah

This forms part of a series of haj stories written by Cape Town doctor Salim Parker. It is currently being published monthly on his website www.hajjdoctor.co.za. ‘There are two events in my life which happened exactly as I anticipated,’ he told me. ‘The first was my Hajj and it feels that I had a premonition about how I would experience it. I anticipated the tents on Mina, the amazement of […]

24 November 2016

Tourism – Hajj and Umrah

Going home, and never returning

Hajj Stories by Doctor Salim Parker ‘I need to go home,’ I told my friend. He smiled and nodded understandingly. He lived in Madinah and whenever he left the city for whatever reason, he always could not wait to return home. I had just arrived in Madinah having completed Hajj the day before. In fact some Hujjaaj were still in the valley of Mina where they spent three days of […]

2 November 2016

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SAHUC introduces mission workers to aspiring pilgrims for 2023 season

Waiting at the gates of Jannah

Going home, and never returning

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