Source: Global Prayer Network

This week, 21-25 September, millions of Muslims will travel from all over the world to Mecca, the birthplace of Islam. Muslims are expected to at least make a pilgrimage to this city in his lifetime.

During Hajj, pilgrims join processions of hundreds of thousands of people, who simultaneously converge on Mecca for the week of the Hajj, and perform a series of rituals:

• each person walks counter-clockwise seven times around the Ka’aba (the cube-shaped building and the direction of prayer for the Muslims),
• runs back and forth between the hills of Al-Safa and Al-Marwah,
• drinks from the Zamzam Well,
• goes to the plains of Mount Arafatto stand in vigil,
• spends a night in the plain of Muzdalifa, and performs symbolic stoning of the devilby throwing stones at three pillars.
• The pilgrims then shave their heads, perform a ritual of animal sacrifice,
• and celebrate the three day global festival of Eid al-Adha.

Please join other intercessors and pray for the pilgrims and seekers to meet Jesus in person, like Paul on the Damascus road in Acts 9. A complete prayer guide can be downloaded at  http://www.globalprn.com/wp-content/uploads/Hajj-2015-A4.pdf