Islam
جَبَل عَرَفَات
Mount Arafat
“A single day spent standing, hands raised, until sunset”
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Photo: Fahad Faisal · CC BY-SA 4.0
Scenes
Meaning
The granite hill is covered with a tide of white robes, and beneath the white pillar at its crest countless hands rise toward the sky.
Tradition holds this to be where the Prophet Muhammad gave his Farewell Sermon, and the standing (wuquf) at the heart of the Hajj takes place on this plain. So central is it that a saying holds, "The Hajj is Arafat."
Field notes
- Location
- Plain of Arafat · 메카 동남쪽 · N21.4° · E40.0°
- Best time
- The ninth day of the Hajj, the wuquf (standing) from noon until sunset
- Getting there
- About 20 km southeast of Mecca, reached by pilgrimage-season roads.
- Etiquette
- As a sacred precinct, its visiting guidelines are carefully observed.
Sources
- · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- · Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah
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