Foreign Minister Timothy Kabba is Part of 638 Sierra Leonean Pilgrims Performing this Year’s Hajj

Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Timothy Musa Kabba, together with the Minister of Transport and Aviation, Alhaji Fanday Turay Esq., are part of a total of Six Hundred and Thirty-eight (638) pilgrims from Sierra Leone performing the 1445/2024 Hajj in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

The Foreign and Transport Ministers are performing this year’s Hajj as Royal Guests and invitees of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

The Presidential Hajj Taskforce on Hajj of Sierra Leone made further requests to the Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umra Affairs for the approval of an additional number of twenty-nine (29) pilgrims who arrived in Saudi Arabia last week to make it a total of Six hundred and thirty-eight (638) pilgrims.

The first and second batches of the pilgrims performing this year’s Hajj also comprise the Deputy Minister of Social Welfare, Mohamed Haji-Kella, 2 medical doctors, 1 pharmacist, 2 nurses and 9 government officials.

On Friday, 14th June, 2024, the Sierra Leonean pilgrims joined hundreds of thousands of their colleagues from around the world to converge in Mina, commonly known as the “City of the Tents” in preparation of the 1445/2024 Hajj which commences today, the 8th of Dhul-Hijjah 1445.

On the 8th of Dhul-Hijjah every year, more than 1.5 million pilgrims across the world dressed in white seamless Ihram converged in Mina chanting praises for Allah “Labbaik Allahumma Labbaik” (O God, here I am answering your call) signifying the beginning of the first leg of a 5-day Hajj pilgrimage. It is “Sunnah” (practice of Prophet Muhammad, Peace be upon him) for pilgrims to stay in the tents in Mina on the 8th of Dhul-Hijjah

The pilgrims will spend the day in their tents in Mina in prayers and supplications for Arafat day on Saturday, which is the pinnacle of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

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