The current COVID-19 pandemic has caused the restriction on the number of pilgrims for Hajj for the second time.

This restriction has caused an unusual rise in “false informations” and senseless “conspiracy theories” surrounding the restriction, even though it was taken after careful review over months and seeing the latest information on the spread of the pandemic to safeguard the pilgrims and eventually the world.


In this article, we have compiled the number of times the Hajj was restricted over many reasons but the majority of them were because of disease outbreaks or pandemics.

865: Massacre on Arafat Mountain
During his conflict with the Abbasid Caliphate based in Baghdad, Ismail bin Yousef, known as Al-Safak, launched an attack on the holy Arafat Mountain overlooking Mecca in 865, massacring pilgrims there. The raid forced Hajj to be cancelled.

930: Qarmatian attack
In 930, Abu Taher al-Janabi, the chief of the Qarmatians heterodox sect based in Bahrain, launched an attack on Mecca.
Historical accounts say the Qarmatians killed 30,000 pilgrims in the holy city and dumped bodies in the sacred Zamzam well. They also looted the Grand Mosque and stole the Black Stone from its Kaaba, taking it to the island of Bahrain.
Hajj was then suspended for a decade until the Black Stone was returned to Mecca.
The Qarmatians were an Ismaili Shia sect who believed in an egalitarian society and considered pilgrimage a pagan ritual.

983: Abbasid and Fatimid Caliphates
Politics, too, has disrupted Hajj. In 983 political disputes between the rulers of two caliphates - the Abbasids of Iraq and Syria and the Fatimids of Egypt - got in the way of Muslims travelling to Mecca for pilgrimage. It would be eight years until Hajj was held again, in 991.

1831: Plague
Not only conflicts and massacres have cancelled Hajj. A plague from India hit Mecca in 1831 and killed three-quarters of the pilgrims there, who had endured weeks of travel through dangerous and barren lands to perform Hajj.

1837-1858: Series of epidemics
In a span of almost two decades, Hajj was halted three times, leaving pilgrims unable to head to Mecca for a total of seven years.
In 1837, another plague hit the holy city, putting things on hold until 1840.
Then in 1846 a bout of cholera hit Mecca, killing more than 15,000 people, and plagued its inhabitants until 1850. Outbreaks returned in 1865 and 1883.
In 1858, another global cholera pandemic arrived in the city, prompting Egyptian pilgrims to run away en masse to Egypt's Red Sea shores, where they were held in quarantine.

ANTIlSLAM:
The person above me is afraid of me for been his master.

The devil you are stoning never dies up till today rather you are the one sheytan is killing in thousands for stoning him, what a tradegy..

Rashduct4luv:


Keep mute! Who told you the devil is meant to be stoned to death? Shaytan has no power to kill anyone. Didn't your Bible claim Satan tempted your Jesus? Was Jesus able to kill him? No!

So keep Mute here as you are truly the master called Lucifer aka Devil.

ANTIlSLAM:


Open the below link maybe you will get sense.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/190975-hajj-deaths-emir-sanusi-wants-nigerian-pilgrims-to-end-stoning-the-devil.html

lifenija:
why cancel why not continue una stoning, hmmm

SpecialAdviser:
Happy to know that it is still Muslims carrying out masacare in Mecca.

I watched a documentary of how at a time French Christian military saved Mecca from destructions by using a gasseous chemical to gas out Mecca Invaders who wanted to destroy the mosque.

All Muslims do is to teach their adherents how Christianity is this or that while grooming terrorists that keep hating those with different believe.

God will surely defeat them.

dmbb:

So Hitler was a Muslim right?

SpecialAdviser:

Did Hitler attack Mecca?

ANTIlSLAM post=103475417[s:
]Sheytan's head will know peace for yet another period, No throwing of stones[/s]

geoworldedu:
is a disgrace to common sense

ANTIlSLAM:
Sheytan's head will know peace for yet another period, No throwing of stones

SpecialAdviser:
H[s]appy to know that it is still Muslims carrying out masacare in Mecca.

I watched a documentary of how at a time French Christian military saved Mecca from destructions by using a gasseous chemical to gas out Mecca Invaders who wanted to destroy the mosque.

All Muslims do is to teach their adherents how Christianity is this or that while grooming terrorists that keep hating those with different believe.

God will surely defeat them.

AntiChristian:
The person above me is an agent of Shaytan in human form. May all Shaytan in human form know no peace.

Alhamdulillah, Hajj is a pillar of Islam unlike those JP tourist.

May Allah grant us acceptable Hajj in the coming years!

egunna:
and who told u it's only stoning dat takes place in Hajj?or u think it's the Jerusalem u go to with with polo,Jean and face cap to take pictures of tourist attractions?we go here to worship oga.there are a series of activities dat take place during Hajj buh u won't know coz ur brain cannot research.u rely on hear say.

lifenija:
lol mumu already showing his jihad side. n ur brain can research shey.
ode, lol religion of peace my shit.
what u guys do else apart from holding terrorist meetings n looking for under age girls