All Locations Of Indonesian Hajj Candidates Staying Will Be Sweeping Before Wukuf In Arafah

Shalawat bus to take Indonesian pilgrims from the hotel to the Grand Mosque of Makkah. (BETWEEN)

JAKARTA - Head of the Transportation Section for the Makkah Working Area, Asep Subhana, said officers would conduct raids on hotels on 8 Dzulhijjah to ensure that no pilgrims were left behind to Arafah.

"We, with the protection of the congregation (linjam) and technical controllers, will conduct a sweep from hotel to hotel. We will check all hotels, all have actually departed, we make sure all pilgrims have left for Arafah," Asep said in Makkah, quoted by Antara. , Saudi Arabia, Monday 27 June.

Asep said officers from the transportation section would be prepared in the field attached to the sectors. The officer will not be dispatched to Arafah before ensuring that all pilgrims at hotels in that sector leave.

"We make sure that all pilgrims have departed, we from the transportation officers depart, God willing, the last one from Mecca," he said.

He guarantees that all pilgrims will be transported, although only one person will certainly be escorted to Arafah to carry out wukuf or the peak of the pilgrimage.

"We guarantee that, even if there is one member of the congregation who is left behind, for example, we will send him there, we will prepare a universal sweeping bus to go to Arafah," added Asep.

Pilgrims of the prospective haj began to depart for Arafah on the morning of 8 Dzulhijjah to wukuf and spend the night in Arafah. Then, the congregation will be pushed to Muzdalifah, then to Mina to get up and throw the jumrah.