Thousands of Nigerian pilgrims, who performed this year’s Hajj in Saudi Arabia are now idle in the Holy Land, waiting anxiously for their return journey to Nigeria.

The pilgrims completed the rites on August 20, the Arafat Day, after the symbolic throwing of pebbles at the Devil on three consecutive days.

The process also took them to observe the final rites involving the circumambulation of the Holy Ka’aba, the most sacred site in Islam in the Grand Mosque in Makkah.

They also undertook the mandatory Sa’ee (shuttling between Safaa and Marwa) seven times after going round the Ka’aba.

Alhaji Abubakar Imam, a pilgrim from Sokoto state, said: “our attention is now on home. We are pleased and thankful to Allah for allowing us a peaceful Hajj”.

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