POBNEWS24, Dhaka July 8, 2022 : Two years after the coronation period, the holy Hajj has started with 1 million pilgrims. Yesterday, they moved to the edge of Mina, eight kilometers from Mecca. There they spend time in the tent, performing prayers and various acts of worship. This time 60,148 pilgrims from Bangladesh took part.
Like every year, this time too more than one and a half hundred Bangladeshi students are working in the service of Hajis. They were received at the airport and served in Mecca, Medina and Jeddah. After the start of Hajj activities, they worked in different places including Masjidul Haram, Mina, Arafa, Muzdalifah. In the Hajj office, translators, computer operators, Hajj workers, Hajis help the students as well as provide various services. Many also work as interpreters.
Sarwar Kamal of Cox’s Bazar, an honors student at King Abdul Aziz University. He is working as a Hajj worker under Bangladesh Hajj Mission. He also worked as a Hajj guide in 2019. Students interested in providing services to pilgrims during the Hajj season have to ensure recruitment before the month of Ramadan. However, this time as the number of pilgrims from Bangladesh was less, not as many students were recruited as before.
Sarwar said, ‘Hajj pilgrims are like guests of Allah. So I don’t think serving them is like any other job. I think it is a great virtue to do a little, especially for the pilgrims of one’s own country. Through this I hope for a very special dignity for Allah. ‘
Ismail Hossain of Chapainawabganj is a student of Shariah Department of the same university. This is the first time he has been appointed as a Hajj worker in the service of Hajj. He said, ‘The feeling of serving the pilgrims is different. Because they are the guests of God’s house. I feel blessed to be able to serve the guests from the country. “110-130 riyals per day is given for volunteers,” he said.
More than one million Muslims are performing the Hajj this year after a long two-year ban on coronation. Of these, 1.5 lakh people from Saudi Arabia and 8.5 lakh people from all over the world will perform Hajj. In 2021, only 60,000 people in Saudi Arabia performed the Hajj. And in 2020, about 10,000 people performed Hajj in compliance with strict rules and regulations. About 2.5 million people performed Hajj in 2019 before the Corona epidemic.
