Muzdalifah

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The Muzdalifah (Arabic مزدلفة, DMG Muzdalifa ) is a located in Mecca level in Saudi Arabia, in which many devout Muslims during the Hajj pilgrims on the ninth day of the month Dhu al - Hijjah stay ( Wuquf ). The plane is also known as Gam ( Assembly).

There the Prophet Muhammad quoted in the ninth year after the Hijra on the pilgrimage to Mecca, the Koran verse "Today I have completed your religion for you, completed My favor upon you, nor choose you Islam as a creed ." In the plane, there is a mosque. It bears an inscription, after the Emir Jalbuga the place " in Dsul - Ca'da 760 " have let get ready.

In Muzdalifah stay accordance with the provisions men outdoors, women, children and physically weak men move on to Mina. In Muzdalifah, the evening prayers are held; the pilgrims gather in the valley the pebbles for the ritual the following day of Hajj, if they throw seven stones at Mina on a heap of stones to stone the devil symbolic. The pilgrims set off the next morning when the first rays of sun appear over the mountain Thabīr. From the Arabic proverb was " Let the sun rise, o Thabîr so we hurry on! ". In the plane, there is a hill that Quzah. He was already in pre-Islamic times as a holy place and is named after an ancient Arabic storm god. Quzah was under the name Qaus the chief god of the Edomites.