The Hajj (Arabic: حج Ḥaǧǧ "pilgrimage", also spelled haj and hadj) is the pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is one of the largest pilgrimages in the world, and is the fifth pillar of Islam, a religious duty that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so. The Hajj is a demonstration of the solidarity of the Muslim people, and their submission to God (Allah in the Arabic language).
The pilgrimage occurs from the 8th to 12th day of Dhu al-Hijjah, the 12th and last month of the Islamic calendar. Because the Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar, eleven days shorter than the Gregorian calendar used in the Western world, the Gregorian date of the Hajj changes from year to year. Ihram is the name given to the special spiritual state in which Muslims live while on the pilgrimage.
The Hajj is associated with the life of Islamic prophet Muhammad from the 7th century, but the ritual of pilgrimage to Mecca is considered by Muslims to stretch back thousands of years to the time of Abraham (Ibrahim). Pilgrims join processions of hundreds of thousands of people, who simultaneously converge on Mecca for the week of the Hajj, and perform a series of rituals: Each person walks counter-clockwise seven times around the Kaaba, the cube-shaped building which acts as the Muslim direction of prayer, runs back and forth between the hills of Al-Safa and Al-Marwah, drinks from the Zamzam Well, goes to the plains of Mount Arafat to stand in vigil, and throws stones in a ritual Stoning of the Devil. The pilgrims then shave their heads, perform a ritual of animal sacrifice, and celebrate the three day global festival of Eid al-Adha.
Maulana Tariq Jameel (Urdu: مولانا طارق جمیل) (born 1953) is an Islamic scholar from Pakistan. His native town is Tulambah near Mian Channu. His father was an agriculturist who belonged to the Muslim Rajputs community.[citation needed]
Tariq Jameel was born and raised in Mian Channu. In his childhood he lived a relatively modest life but religion was not a major part of his life and his family in particular. It wasn't until he pursued his M.B.B.S. in Lahore that his focus shifted towards Islam. After completing his Higher Secondary School education (a.k.a. F.Sc in some regions of Pakistan) in pre-medical (equivalent to A 'levels') from Government College, Lahore, he took admission in King Edward Medical College in Lahore. He intended to do his M.B.B.S., but he soon switched to Islamic education. He then went on to receive Islamic education from Jamia Arabia, Raiwind (near Lahore), Pakistan where he studied Quran, Hadith, Sharia, Tasawwuf, logic and Fiqh.[citation needed]
His proclivity towards Islam grew during hostel life in Lahore and can mainly be attributed to the group members of Tablighi Jamaat who he became friends with during his college life.[citation needed]
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Castel Volturno Italy, 2010. Bits of life of Castel Volturno's Black inhabitants, contemporary Argonauts, who crossed the Mediterranean sea on rubber boats, following their European dream. Castel Volturno, an ex-holiday-paradise in Southern Italy, is nowadays a vessel for those Subsaharians who survived the journey through the desert and over the sea. After stranding in Lampedusa and being rejected by the European Commission, the next station is Castel Volturno, without 'papers'. The African reality of Castel Volturno is transported without an objective or analytical narrative, without accusing, but through a texture made of many subjectivities. A texture made of myths, self-suggestion, references and metaphors. The film focuses on the invisible things behind what we already know about this more or less desperate reality.
Keywords: boat-people, migration, west-africa
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In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation follow the same methods. Alex and Al Barad are two of them. The former is the head of the D.G.S.E.'s (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure, the French equivalent of the CIA or the MI6) counter-terrorism unit while the latter reigns over a terrorist network, and both fight using the most ruthless of weapons: human beings. Secret Défense (aka Secrets Of State) tells of their secret war through the destinies of Diane, a student recruited by the French secret service, and Pierre, a troubled young man who thinks terrorism will bring him salvation. Trained and indoctrinated for missions which are beyond them, they are both drawn into a chain of events from which they seem incapable of escaping. While they both be sacrificed in the name of their "noble" causes?
Keywords: airport, anti-terrorism, anti-terrorist-squad, bomb, college-student, counter-terrorism, counter-terrorism-unit, counter-terrorist, dog, france
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Like a tale spun by Scheherazade, Kismet follows the remarkable and repeated changes of fortune that engulf a poor poet. It all happens in one incredible day when Kismet (Fate) takes a hand.
Keywords: 1001-nights, arabian-nights, baghdad-mesopotamia, based-on-play, based-on-stage-musical, based-on-stage-musical-based-on-stage-play, beggar, caliph, dancer, dancing
ECSTASY OF SONG, SPECTACLE AND LOVE! {poster - all caps]
FAMED STAGE HIT GLORIFIED ON THE SCREEN! [poster - all caps]
The Poet: May your taxes increase! [Said when acting as a beggar to get the Baghdad merchants to give him alms]
Caliph Guard: [closing lines] Is this man to be pardoned, O Caliph?::Omar: Pardon him, All Highest. His crime was a service. Let him go free.::The Poet: No, don't ask that. Under the circumstances it would embarrass the All Highest to pardon his father-in-law. No, O Prince of Justice, let me help you to compose this most difficult of verdicts against a man who in his life never once did right and who never once wronged anyone. Condemn the scoundrel to some dreadful oasis at least a week's camel's journey away. Force him to take with him the widow of the soon to be late Wazir and all the property she can get her hands on before the accounts are audited. Condemn him to lighten her sorrow and to toil ceaselessly to remove all grief from her heart.::Lalume: You have just condemned yourself for life, My Lord.::The Poet: And finally, O Prince of True Believers, take from me my greatest treasure, my daughter, Marsinah. Take her away forever by marrying her til the end of her days.::The Caliph: Such is the Caliph's pleasure. And so he orders.::The Poet: [singing] Princes come/Princes go. An hour of pomp and show./ They know. /Princes come/ And over the sands and over the sands of time./ They go./ Wise men come./Ever promising/the riddle of life to know./Wise men come./But over the sands./ The silent sands of time./ They go./Lovers come./Lovers go./And all that there is to know/Lovers know./Only lovers know.
Lalume: [singing] On days when my lord groweth restless, and bored by his staff and his plume... his handmaiden hath what he needeth- and what doth he need? Rahadlakum!
Marsinah: [on being told that the Wazir intends to visit her room that night] If you do I'll kill myself, I swear it!::Wazir: Really? It'll be one of the most interesting wedding nights I've had in years.
Chief Policeman: [Hajj the poet has just been sentenced by the Wazir, and the Chief Policeman enters to find him and Lalume, the Wazir's wife, kissing] Is that his sentence?
The Caliph: I was stepped upon!::Manservant: Oh inconceivable, All Highest, but true. You were incontrovertibly stepped upon.
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Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
Keywords: arab, arabian-nights, baghdad-mesopotamia, based-on-play, beggar, caliph, camel, castle, cheat, dancer
A Fantasy of Romance and Passion Woven With the Glamourous Threads of Ancient Bagdad! ...the night of nights - no dream of dreams ever thrilled like this! (original ad)
The Rascal of Bagdad - Beggar - King - Trader of his own Virgin Daughter - Covetor of his Master's Wife! (original ad)
A Thousand Thrills! Beggar by Trade - King by Inclination - Honors no Woman - Trusts no Man! (original poster)
No Harem wanted a more delightful cheat...no favorite wife succumbed to more eloquent charm! (original ad)
A PAUPER - yet he steals into a Caliph's harem to force kisses from the favorite wife! (original ad)