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hajjPilgrimage to Mecca (Arabic Makkah), in Saudi Arabia, that should be undertaken by every Muslim at least once in a lifetime, unless he or she is prevented by financial or health difficulties. A Muslim who has been on hajj may take the additional name Hajji. Many of the pilgrims on hajj also visit Medina, where the prophet Muhammad is buried. |
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| One day before the Saddam's execution, I watched closely the speech of Arafa day, which marks the ritual of the hajj. He had attended hajj, the journey to Mecca that every able Muslim is instructed to do once. However, serogroup W135 has recently emerged as a cause of epidemic disease in Africa (2,3), after outbreaks in 2000 and 2001 in Saudi Arabia during the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca (4-6). |
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