{"id":462945,"date":"2026-05-27T17:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/462945\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T17:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:36:09","slug":"muslim-pilgrims-perform-hajj-rituals-under-intense-heat-as-eid-al-adha-celebrations-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/462945\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim pilgrims perform Hajj rituals under intense heat as Eid al-Adha celebrations start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"VVHU6MBR5VB5XCZBOK42ABEIYU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">MINA, Saudi Arabia \u2014 Masses of pilgrims in Saudi Arabia threw pebbles at a large pillar in a symbolic ritual on Wednesday, one of the final days of the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/saudi-arabia-hajj-pilgrimage-muslims-explainer-ca62a82bd2d1055fc9bc96a3a4864a49\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hajj<\/a> as Muslims around the world started celebrating the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"HE6Z6MKYYFBPTLSX2C5OVH6BKA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Pilgrims in Mina, Saudi Arabia, chanted \u201cAllahu akbar\u201d (\u201cGod is great\u201d) while throwing pebbles in a ritual seen as a symbolic stoning of the devil. The act is also seen as a symbol of rejecting evil and a commemoration of the Prophet Ibrahim\u2019s rejection of temptation when the devil tried to dissuade him from submitting to God\u2019s will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINA, Saudi Arabia \u2014 Masses of pilgrims in Saudi Arabia threw pebbles at a large pillar in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[159991,122,42,9151,215465,43,7319,89642,40,38,41,39,126],"class_list":["post-462945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","tag-general-news","tag-headlines","tag-islam","tag-ml-rel-saudi-arabia-hajj","tag-news","tag-religion","tag-spirituality","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}