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Thursday, February 14, 2013
MAKKAH — A total of 34 Saudis have been granted licenses to conduct organized tourist trips to historic sites in Makkah, an activity which is presently being carried out randomly by some foreigners and Saudis, according to the executive director of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) in the holy city.
“This market has an annual turnover of more than SR200 million,” Abdullah Al-Sawwat said.
The pilgrims and visitors will be taken to a number of historic locations, including Jabal Al-Noor, Ghar Hira Cave, Jabal Thour, the Kiswa Factory, Namirah Mosque and the holy sites of Mina, Muzdalifah and Arafat.
He said the tour organizer will be committed to a tourist program approved by the SCTA and will be using a tourist guide to provide correct information to the tourists about all these places.
Al-Sawwat recalled that a pre-Umrah tourist program was organized for pilgrims last year in collaboration with the Ministry of Haj and the Directorate General of Passports. “We will further expand this program during the coming Umrah season,” he added.
Tens of mini-buses and sedan cars are parked daily outside the Grand Mosque to transport thousands of pilgrims of various nationalities to Jabal Al-Noor (the Mountain of Light) early morning till sunset.
Abu Naif, a Saudi bus driver, said he has been transporting pilgrims from the Grand Mosque to the historic sites for more than 15 years. “I rent a mini-bus from one of the auto dealers to do this job, which brings me up to SR20,000 each season,” he said, adding that most of the times he was also playing the role of a tourist guide providing information to pilgrims about these historical places.
“Some pilgrims are keen to write on the rocks while others are determined to take some stones from the Jabal Thour as souvenirs,” he said.
Mohsen Hussain, an owner of a mini-bus, said his tourist trip starts early morning from the Grand Mosque. “I charge each pilgrim between SR10 and SR30 per a trip,” he said.
Abu Radhi, another Saudi citizen, said he has been using his 9-seater to take pilgrims to historic places for more than 15 years. “Our work extends from early morning until close to Maghreb prayer. I charge pilgrims up to SR50 per person during the high seasons,” he said.
A security man at one of the historic sites, who did not want to be identified, said some pilgrims erroneously believe that the rocks of the mountains in Makkah are blessed and will grant them children and wealth.
“Some illegal residents gave them this false notion and charged them SR50 for a photo on the mountain,” he said.
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index...20130214153135
كشف نائب الرئيس العام لشؤون الحرم المكي والمسجد النبوي الدكتور محمد بن ناصر الخزيم لـ «عكاظ» عن دراسات تجرى حاليا في رئاسة الحرمين الشريفين إيجاد سيور متحركة تتوزع في أطراف الحرم المكي الشريف لنقل المعتمرين والحجاج من أطراف الحرم المكي الشريف إلى صحن المطاف.
وقال نائب الرئيس العام لشؤون الحرم المكي والمسجد النبوي لـ «عكاظ»: الرئاسة تسعى دائما إلى التميز في تقديم الخدمة وليس إلى الخدمة بذاتها، لذلك هي تعي جل مسؤولياتها، مشيرا إلى أن هناك دراسات كثيرة مرتبطة بالطواف وصحن المطاف مثل السيور الناقلة وطواف المعوقين والعربات وهي بانتظار موافقة خادم الحرمين الشريفين الملك عبدالله بن عبدالعزيز وهيئة كبار العلماء لأنها مرتبطة بالشعائر والنسك.
وأضاف لدى الرئاسة مشروع كبير الآن تحت الدراسة وهو ترجمة خطبة الجمعة في الحرم مباشرة لعدة لغات أشبه بالترجمة في المناسبات والمؤتمرات الدولية، بحيث يستطيع كل مصل لا يجيد اللغة العربية فتح القناة المناسبة والاستماع إلى الخطبة.
وبين الخزيم أن الرئاسة كانت بصدد تنفيذ مشروع ضخم لمحطات الخدمات من التكييف والكهرباء ولكن أوقف بعد أن وجه خادم الحرمين الشريفين بتوسعة صحن المطاف من أجل التنفيذ لأنها تتعارض مع أعمال توسعة المطاف.
وقال هناك محطة للخدمات كاملة في جرول حي الباب لخدمات المسجد الحرام وبئر زمزم من الكهرباء والتكييف، وأضاف «وفي محاولة للتخفيف أقيم ملحق في أجياد وضع فيه بعض المكائن لمد المسعى خاصة بالتكييف حتى الانتهاء من مشروع الملك عبدالله بن عبدالعزيز لتوسعة المطاف كاملا، وسيغطى مشروع التكييف الجديد توسعة الملك عبدالله في الساحات الشمالية والحرم القديم».
جاء ذلك خلال استضافة ديوانية إبراهيم عبدالرؤوف أمجد لنائب الرئيس العام لشؤون الحرم المكي والمسجد النبوي الدكتور محمد بن ناصر الخزيم والذي أكد خلال حديثة أن هناك دراسات جادة لتظليل الصحن والساحات الشرقية والغربية بعد أن أقر ذلك في الساحات الشمالية وسوف تنفذ في توسعة خادم الحرمين الشريفين الملك عبدالله بن عبدالعزيز للحرم المكي الشريف، وقال هناك بنية تحتية في الساحات الشرقية والغربية في أنفاق الخدمات يدرس كيفية التعامل معها في حال إنشاء مظلات.
وأكد الخزيم في سياق حديث أن خطباء وأئمة الحرمين الشريفين لديهم من العلم والفقه ما يعينهم على إدارة الخطب ويترك لهم مجالها والوقت الذي تستغرقه، مبينا أن إطالة الخطبة والصلاة أمور نسبية والخطيب لا يخاطب من في المكان فهي خطبة عالمية يتطلب منه الإيضاح والاستطراد أحيانا.
وكشف الخزيم عن اعتماد إنشاء مركز للبحث العلمي لتطوير رسالة الحرمين يهتم بالدراسات المتعددة، قائلا: في الحرمين يوجد نوعان من الدراسة الأولى المنظمة ويتولاها معهد الحرم المكي ويمنح الدارس شهادة الثانوية وله فرع في المسجد النبوي وهناك كلية تمنح درجة البكالوريوس.
ونفى الخزيم وجود معالجة لماء زمزم مؤكدا «يقتصر الأمر في عمليات التعقيم فقط».
وطلب الخزيم من أهل مكة المكرمة أن تقلل خطواتهم إلى الحرم المكي الشريف «اذكرهم بعادات أهل مكة بأن لا يأتوا الحرم بعد رمضان إلا في محرم»، وقال مخاطبا لهم «اتركوا المطاف للقادمين من خارج مكة المكرمة فترك العمل فيه أجر بنية طيبة لإتاحة الفرصة للآخرين ويقلل أوقات الطواف».
http://www.okaz.com.sa/new/Issues/20...0210571545.htm
Google translation: Revealed Vice President General for the Grand Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque, Dr Mohammed bin Nasser الخزيم for «Okaz» More studies are underway in the Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques find thongs mobile distributed on the outskirts of the Holy Haram to transport pilgrims from parties Haram al-Sharif to the Mataf.
The vice president said General for the Grand Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque for «Okaz»: the presidency has always sought to excellence in providing the service, not the service itself, so it is aware of the bulk of their responsibilities, adding that there were many studies linked tawaaf and dish up like conveyor belts and Cruising with disabilities and vehicles which Pending approval of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz and the senior scientists because it is related rites and rituals.
The presidency has a big project now under study is to translate the Friday sermon in the campus directly to several languages like translation in international events and conferences, so that each serum can not fluent in English proper channel open and listen to the sermon.
And between الخزيم presidency was in the process of implementing a huge project to service stations of air conditioning and electricity, but stopped after the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, expanding the dish of the day for the execution because it conflicted with the expansion works of the Mataf.
He said there station full services in Jarwal neighborhood door to services the Grand Mosque and the well of Zamzam of electricity and air conditioning, and added «In an attempt to alleviate held extension in Ajyad put it some machines to extend endeavor private air conditioning until the completion of the project, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz to expand up fully, and will cover the project conditioners New expansion of King Abdullah in North squares and the old campus.
This came during host Official Ibrahim Abdul Rauf Amjad Vice President General for the Grand Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque, Dr Mohammed bin Nasser الخزيم which emphasized during a recent that there serious studies to highlight the dish and squares Eastern and Western after admitting that in the squares North and will be implemented in the expansion of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al-Haram al-Sharif, said there is an infrastructure in Eastern and Western arenas in the service tunnels studying how to deal with them in the event of the establishment of umbrellas.
The الخزيم in a modern context that preachers and imams of the Two Holy Mosques for their science and jurisprudence what appointed to manage the speeches and leave them scope and time spent, noting that the prolongation of the sermon and prayer things relative and Khatib does not address of the place is a sermon global requires him to clarification and digressions sometimes.
The الخزيم revealed adoption of the establishment of a center for scientific research for the development of a multi Holy cares studies, saying: Holy There are two types of the first study organization and handled by the Institute of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and gives the student a high school diploma has a branch in the Prophet's Mosque and there College awarded a bachelor's degree.
The الخزيم denied the existence of Zamzam water treatment stressing «only do in sterilization operations only.
He asked الخزيم of the people of Mecca to reduce their steps to the Haram al-Sharif «remind them habits people of Mecca that does not come campus after Ramadan only in January», he told them «Let up for those coming from outside Mecca left the work which reward good faith to provide the opportunity for others and reduces circumambulation times.
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2/11/2013
The oldest excerpts from the Quran have been discovered in the cellars of the Yemeni capital Sanaa’s Great Mosque, daily Bugün has reported, adding that former Turkish Religious Affairs Director Tayyar Altıkulaç has gone to examine the pieces.
“Workers saw the Quran pieces when they opened the cellar. Why do we call them pieces? Because in the early periods of Islam, there were not too many Qurans and people used to read it by cutting it into pieces. These pieces were worn down as they were transferred from person to person. After the development of writing, Qurans increased in number and these pieces were gathered and kept in a place.
When the door of the cellar was opened, snakes came out. The cellar has a window and water came in from there. This is why some of these pieces decomposed and got dirty,” said Altıkulaç, underlining the importance of the discovery.
According to the daily, the pieces of the holy book were discovered during restoration works that started on the mosque after a collapse in the structure.
Some of the pieces have previously been sold at London auction houses by former governors, he said.
“The Quran pieces need restoration at the moment. They have been kept randomly in 20 sacks.”
He said the pieces were under the responsibility of the Yemeni Culture Ministry and that they should be handled one by one and restored.
“Some of the Quran pieces are from the companions of the Prophet Muhammed and some date back to second and third centuries. They are very important sources for the academic world,” he said.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/old...=238&nid=40882
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/old...=238&nid=40882
allahuakbar!!! amazing find if true,,,
This cannot be undone and I am sure it will be greatly appreciated.
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