{"id":16374,"date":"2022-06-14T03:55:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T02:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/?p=16374"},"modified":"2022-06-14T03:55:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T02:55:21","slug":"nearly-400000-people-saudi-arabia-apply-hajj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/16374\/nearly-400000-people-saudi-arabia-apply-hajj\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 400,000 People in Saudi Arabia Apply for Hajj"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subtitle\">Over 390,000 people from inside Saudi Arabia have applied for the upcoming Hajj season.<\/div>\n<div class=\"body ah_body\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They have applied through the Eatamarna app, and the e-track for domestic pilgrims, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to informed sources, the number of slots allocated for domestic pilgrims will not exceed 150,000, while the number of pilgrims from other countries will reach 850,000.<\/p>\n<p>Only a limited number of domestic pilgrims was allowed to perform Hajj during the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview with Al Ekhbarya, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah Hisham Saed said that the request of registering for Hajj via the e-track and Eatamarna app was closed on June 11, after 9 days.<\/p>\n<p>After June 11, the sorting and the e-draw process will begin to select potential pilgrims who meet the requirements set by the ministry, Saed added.<\/p>\n<p>He noted the nominated pilgrims will receive an SMS.<\/p>\n<p>They will be given 48 hours to complete the payment of the fees for the selected packages, after which the Hajj permits will be issued to them.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry announced earlier that it would use the e-draw in the mechanism of nominating applicants from domestic pilgrims for Hajj 2022, in order to provide equal opportunities for applicants for Hajj from within the counrty.<\/p>\n<p>For the upcoming Hajj season, foreign pilgrims were given a major chunk &#8211; 85 per cent of the total number of one million pilgrims who will be allowed to perform Hajj this year.<\/p>\n<p>Pilgrims coming from outside Saudi Arabia are also required to submit a negative COVID-19 PCR test result performed within 72 hours of the time of departure to the Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/iqna.ir\/en\/news\/3479274\/nearly-400000-people-in-saudi-arabia-apply-for-hajj\">iqna<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 390,000 people from inside Saudi Arabia have applied for the upcoming Hajj season. &nbsp; &nbsp; They have applied through the Eatamarna app, and the e-track for domestic pilgrims, local media reported. According to informed sources, the number of slots allocated for domestic pilgrims will not exceed 150,000, while the number of pilgrims from other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":16375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8154,9546,7563],"class_list":["post-16374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-allah","tag-islam","tag-quran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}