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6 December 2008
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The hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam. Every able-bodied Muslim who can financially afford to is required to perform it at least once in his or her lifetime. About three million Muslim pilgrims from nearly 100 countries have gthered in a valley just outside the holy city of Makkah in Saudi Arabia as they began the hajj.
The pilgrims left Makkah on Saturday after completing the first ritual of the hajj by circling the sacred Kaaba seven times inside the Grand Mosque. Dressed in white, pilgrims piled into and on top of buses on their way to a ritual of prayer and reflection at a tent city in Mina.
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