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August 11, 2019
Almost twopoint five million Muslim pilgrims took part Sunday in the “stoning of thedevil”, the last major ritual of the annual hajj pilgrimage and one that has inpast years led to deadly stampedes.
The worshipperswho made their way across Mina Valley near Mecca in Western Saudi Arabia tosymbolically humiliate the devil.
Muslimtradition holds that pilgrims must throw seven stones each at a pillarrepresenting Satan on the first day of Eid al-Adha, following two days ofprayer and meditation.
The hajj,one of the world’s largest religious gatherings, this year officially drew 2.49million pilgrims to Islam’s holiest sites in Saudi Arabia.
Muslimstraditionally slaughter sheep for the three-day holiday in tribute to ProphetAbraham’s sacrifice of a lamb after God at the last moment spared Ishmael, hisson.