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The Umrah ( Arabic: عُمْرَة, lit. 'to visit a populated place') is an Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, the holiest city for Muslims, located in the Hejazi region of Saudi Arabia. It can be undertaken at any time of the year, in contrast to the Ḥajj ( / hædʒ /; [ 1] "pilgrimage"), which has specific dates according to the Islamic lunar ...
Ihram ( Arabic: إِحْرَام, romanized : iḥrām, from the Semitic root Ḥ-R-M) is a sacred state which a Muslim must enter to perform the Ḥajj (major pilgrimate) or ʿ Umrah (minor pilgrimage) in Islam. A pilgrim must enter into this state before crossing the pilgrimage boundary known as the Miqat by performing the cleansing rituals ...
Muhammad. The First Pilgrimage or Umrah of Dhu'l-Qada (Pilgrimage of the 11th month) was the first pilgrimage that the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the Muslims made after the Migration to Medina. It took place on the morning of the fourth day of Dhu al-Qi'dah 7 AH (629 CE), after the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah 6 AH (628 CE).
Muslim female passengers arriving to perform Umrah [23] or Hajj must either be accompanied by an immediate male family member such as a father, brother, husband, or son, who must be aged 18 years or older; or be over 45 years of age and travelling within a group of female passengers of the same age, who are accompanied by a group leader until ...
[6] [7] Muhammad with a group of some 1,500 Muslims of Medina, as well as some tribal allies, marched towards Mecca to perform the Umrah (lesser pilgrimage). [8] [a] There are conflicting accounts as to whether the Muslims carried weapons. [10] They were dressed as pilgrims and had sacrificial animals with them. [11]
The miqat[ 1] ( Arabic: مِيْقَات, romanized : mīqāt, lit. 'a stated place') is a principal boundary at which Muslim pilgrims intending to perform the Ḥajj or ʿ Umrah must enter the state of iḥrām ( lit. 'prohibition'), a state of consecration in which certain permitted activities are made prohibited. There are five mawāqīt ...
The 'Umrah, or the lesser pilgrimage, can be done at anytime during the year. Every adult, healthy Muslim who has the financial and physical capacity to travel to Mecca must perform the Hajj at least once in a lifetime. Umrah, the lesser pilgrimage, is not obligatory, but is recommended in the Quran. [111]
The mosque is located 7 km (4.3 mi) SW of the Al-Masjid an-Nabawi and was defined by Muhammad as the miqat for those willing to perform the Hajj or Umrah pilgrimages from Medina. [1] [2] It is the second-largest miqat mosque after the Miqat Qarn al-Manazil in As-Sayl al-Kabir.