Saudis Violating Spirit of the Hajj Pilgrimage

By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

In the holy Qur’an, God Almighty refers to holy Mecca as "Balad al-Amin”, which means the Secure Land or the "Inviolable Place”, where in the state of Ehram or Pilgrim Garb, even the killing of an insect is forbidden – let alone the shedding of human blood.

Unfortunately, ever since Hijaz the Land of Divine Revelation was occupied by brigands of the Wahhabi cult of Najd who massacred pilgrims inside the holiest of the holies – the Masjid al-Haraam – in 1925, the peace, tranquility and spiritual aura of the Hajj pilgrimage has been eclipsed by hypocrisy and violence unleashed by the Saudi clan, which is totally subservient to the archenemies of Islam, that is, the Americans and the Zionists.

This year, over two million pilgrims have converged upon Mecca to perform the Hajj rituals, which ironically the seditious Saudis have organized a day earlier in violation of the laws of Islam by declaring Monday and Tuesday as Zil-Hijjah 9 and 10, without bothering to confirm the sighting of the crescent.

At the same time, as usual, an elaborate propaganda apparatus of the Riyadh regime is at work to mislead pilgrims from all over the world into believing that the ruler of the British created entity, Saudi Arabia, is the ‘Custodian of Islam’s Two Holiest Shrines’.

Such propaganda is intended to conceal the intermittent Saudi crimes of murdering the Guests of God, such as the stampede in Mena that killed some 7,000 men and women in 2016.

While the Hajj is in progress, Saudi Arabia continues to bomb and kill the Muslims of Yemen, including innocent children, and the other day King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz felt no inhibitions in granting the US a hundred million dollars to keep Syria in turmoil.

Of course, he didn’t say this openly and pretended that the grant was for development of northeastern Syria.

A big lie indeed, in view of the fact that the money was not given to the legal government of war-ravaged Syria but to the Americans who in violation of the UN charter are maintaining an illegal presence in that Muslim Arab country so as to fan the flames of terrorism.

It is now crystal clear that the hundred million dollar grant is for training and arming of more Takfiri terrorists to destabilize Syria.

The question is: How long the Ummah will allow itself to be fooled by the seditious Saudis, who have no authority to rule the holy cities, let alone conduct the Hajj pilgrimage?
How can a regime that massacres the people of Yemen and uses Takfiri proxies to indulge in bloodshed in Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Afghanistan, be allowed to govern Hijaz and manage (actually mismanage) the Hajj pilgrimage?

Mecca, Medina and the entire land of Hijaz, including Ta’ef , Jeddah and other regions, belong to world Muslims and should be managed by an international body of Islamic scholars and intellectuals.

Unfortunately the Saudis, who are openly dallying with the despicable Zionists today, have continued to violate the security and sanctity of the Land of Revelation. They have even entrusted security arrangements in the holy cities to Western and Jewish agencies.
Does this make Mecca a secure and inviolable place?

No certainly not. The Hajj is a wonderful opportunity for world Muslims to foster unity and solidarity by exchanging views among the differing ethnicities from all over the world, which could be useful to resolving many of the problems of the Ummah. But one of the important conditions for the Hajj pilgrimage is security, which means pilgrims to the House of God should have peace of mind, tranquility of heart, and an atmosphere of safety in the places to which they journey and stay.

It is time for the Ummah to wake up before it is too late. If Bayt al-Moqaddas in Palestine is under occupation of the Zionists, the fate of Mecca and Medina is no less disastrous, since without military presence, Israel and the US, are already in control of holy Hijaz, through their loyal servants, the Saudis.