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The Prophet 'IIi g specified five points for entering ihram for lorthose<br />
r·"'·· ,.. intending Hail Haii or Umrah. These are:<br />
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the meeqat for those lhose coming from Madinah. Today it is called "Abyar Ali", Ali"'<br />
and is 450 45O kilometers from lrom Makkah al-Mukarramah.<br />
AI-Juhtah<br />
the meeqat for those coming from lrom or through Syria, Jordan, northern<br />
Hijaz, North Africa and Egypt.!t Is near the lawn of Rablgh.<br />
183 k1lomelers from Makkah, from which people nowadays enter Ihram.<br />
the meeqator for those coming from or through Najd (eastern Arabia). It lt is<br />
now called "as-Sayl al-Kabeer"<br />
and lies 75 kilometers kilometars from Makkah.<br />
Yalamlam<br />
Dhatu Irq<br />
the meeqat for those coming from lrom Yemen and farther south<br />
Today, Today'<br />
people peopte assume ihram from as-Sadiyah,<br />
which is 92 kilometers kilomoters from Makkah.<br />
the meeqat for lor those coming from the direction of Iraq, lraq'<br />
which is 94 kilometers from Makkah al-Mukarramah.<br />
It is obligatory for lor everyone intending Hajj Haij or<br />
Umrah to 10 assume ihram<br />
before betore entering the area beyond these points. Any who knowingly pass<br />
through without ihram must return retum to the meeqat me€qat for tor ihram, ihram'<br />
otherwise the violation requires the slaughter of a sheep sh€op in Makkah for tor<br />
distribution diskibution to the poor ooor