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Pilgrims are supplied a wide range of selections, starting from illuminated relics of the Kaaba and the Prophet’s Mosque (Masjid al-Nabawi) to genuine perfumes with elegant designs, prayer beads, prayer rugs, key rings, dates, incense, materials, conventional clothes and lots of different objects and merchandise.
The retailers within the markets of Mecca, Medina and Jeddah expertise a big inflow of pilgrims who reserve a finances for this goal. Present concepts range to swimsuit all tastes and budgets.
The marketplace for souvenirs acquired in the course of the pilgrimage and Umrah season is price 30 billion Saudi riyals, or the equal of $8 billion, in response to the Saudi Journey and Tourism Funding Discussion board.
In one of many material shops at Al-Balad market in Jeddah, Hajja Amina chooses items that she plans to present to her daughters-in-law, whereas her husband negotiates with the vendor the worth of a coupon with which he needs make a djellaba on their return to Morocco.
“I additionally purchased rosaries, incense, prayer rugs and varied perfumes for my neighbors,” this sixty-year-old Moroccan informed MAP, rejoicing to convey them “blessings” from the Holy Locations.
Haj Abdelaziz, one other Tunisian pilgrim aged 52, purchased an Abaya for his spouse, rigorously chosen amongst many others throughout an change of images by phone. He additionally acquired shirts for himself and his two sons, in addition to incense and rosaries for his family members.
In response to him, though these presents are symbolic, they characterize a singular memento marking the go to to the holy locations and the efficiency of the rites of pilgrimage.
Furthermore, the ihram garment with which he made the pilgrimage is the inheritance of his father-in-law, who has stored it for 34 years. “It’s a piece of nice symbolic worth marking a treasured reminiscence,” he says.
Just like the Al-Balad market in Jeddah, the retailers in Medina additionally see a big inflow of pilgrims from everywhere in the world. They’re notably eager to purchase the completely different types of dates for which Medina is known.
On their option to Jeddah airport after their go to to Rawda charifa, Nabila, a younger Indonesian pilgrim, and her touring companions stopped at a farm outdoors Medina to purchase Ajwa dates.
“I used to be informed that Ajwa dates are blessed and our Prophet (Prayer and Salvation be upon Him) advisable consuming them,” stated Hajja Nabila who handled herself to 2 bins. “There is no such thing as a higher option to share the blessing we acquired in the course of the pilgrimage with our family members on our return than to supply them a sip of Zamzam water and some Ajwa dates,” she’s going to say.
The nice pilgrimage journey appears incomplete for a lot of pilgrims with out the acquisition of those souvenirs which, though symbolic, immortalize a religious expertise that each Muslim needs to expertise not less than as soon as of their life.
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