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Saturday 26 Sep 2015 - 15:13 Makkah mean time-13-12-1436
 Mina (IINA) – Hajj pilgrims started leaving Mina on Saturday after performing the stoning ritual for the third day.
The remaining pilgrims will stay back in the tent city to complete the stoning ritual on Sunday, the third day of Tashreeq, following the example of the Prophet (peace be upon him). Although the Hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam, comes to a close officially on Sunday, pilgrims are allowed to leave a day earlier. Those pilgrims who leave Makkah today will perform their Tawaf Al Wida (farewell circumambulation around the Holy Kaaba), which is the last ritual of the six-day Hajj. Some pilgrims will leave Saudi Arabia today itself at the end of this year’s largely incident-free Hajj.
Pilgrims started the stoning ritual this afternoon in a very smooth and peaceful way. They stoned seven pebbles first at Jamrat Al-Sughra, then at Jamrat Al-Wusta, and finally at Jamrat Al-Aqba. It is to emulate the stoning of Satan at three spots by Prophet Ibrahim where the devil is said to have appeared trying to dissuade him from obeying Allah’s order to sacrifice his son, Ismail. The ritual is renunciation of evil in all its forms and a promise never to fall prey to the machinations and intrigues of Satan, the cursed. Stoning at Jamarat is the main ritual pilgrims have to perform during the last three days of Hajj, known also as Ayyam Al-Tashreeq. Huge presence of security forces and Civil Defense personnel was seen at various points at the mammoth state-of-the-art Jamarat complex, which has the capacity to hold 300,000 pilgrims per hour, as well as on the passages leading to Jamarat. This was under the direct supervision of Crown Prince Muhammad bin Naif, deputy premier, minister of interior and chairman of the Supreme Hajj Committee, and Governor of Makkah and Chairman of the Central Hajj Committee Prince Khaled Al Faisal.
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